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Phones could detect drinking over legal driving limit


Phones could detect drinking over legal driving limit

August 21, 2020 at 8:13 AM

Smartphones can detect when you've had too much to drink by monitoring your walk, a study has found.

American researchers used sensors in smartphones to detect when somebody was over the legal drink-drive limit.

Phones were able to do this with about 90% accuracy when users walked just 10 steps in the study by the University of Pittsburgh.

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