{"id":5931,"date":"2011-04-20T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2012-04-22T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:22:07","slug":"human-error-causes-problems-in-drink-driving-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/human-error-causes-problems-in-drink-driving-cases-5931","title":{"rendered":"Human error causes problems in drink-driving cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Math in the News<\/h2>\n<p>The  Philadelphia-based Philly.com has featured several stories this month about an on-going saga concerning breath-testing machines. <\/p>\n<p>The Intoxilyzer 8000 helped to convict over 1000 drivers for DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol) - but due to a calibration error, every one of those cases will be reviewed. <\/p>\n<p>So far, police believe 416 of the DUI convictions have been affected. <\/p>\n<div class=\"imgCenter\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/04\/intoxilyzer.jpg\" alt=\"Intoxilyzer\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the faulty Intoxilyzer machines (<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2011-04-04\/news\/29380441_1_evidence-in-drunken-driving-cases-breath-testing-instruments-toaster-oven\">image source<\/a>) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This article has the best math background, when the story was breaking:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2011-04-04\/news\/29380441_1_evidence-in-drunken-driving-cases-breath-testing-instruments-toaster-oven\">Operator error in breath tests?<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey later admittted, 'We screwed up.'<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/human-error-causes-problems-in-drink-driving-cases-5931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/04\/intoxilyzer_th.jpg\" alt=\"Intoxilyzer\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a> Here's a case where accuracy was compromised and people suffered because of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}