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Alcohol-impaired driving is among of the leading preventable causes of premature death in the United States and constitutes a grave public health concern.'In 2009, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recorded 10,839 fatalities involving drivers with blood alcohol levels above 0.08 g/dL. 2 NHTSA analysis placed the economic cost of drunk driving, as of 2000, at $114.4 billion annually, including $71.6 billion paid by innocent third parties; 3 in other words, by conservative estimates, alcohol-impaired driving costs society between sixteen and thirty cents for every mile driven under the influence. 4 In order to combat alcohol-impaired driving, state and local governments have in recent years embraced a wide range of measures to apprehend offenders and remove them from the roads. These include sobriety checkpoints, 5 stiffer penalties such as mandatory jail time, 6 breath alcohol ignition …