Alcohol breath tests are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

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Alcohol breath tests are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

November 03, 2019, 09:53:43 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/business/drunk-driving-breathalyzer.html

Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

Re: Alcohol breath tests are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

Reply #1 – December 18, 2019, 01:16:50 am

Used to work for Dräger calibrating and maintaining the breathalyzer units for police, and indeed they need to be calibrated often or you will get skewed results