After Your DUI - Locked Out with an Ignition Interlock
Ignition Lockouts An ignition interlock tests for the presence of alcohol in your breath. If it detects alcohol, it prevents your car from starting. While you will be required to take periodic tests during your drive, an ignition interlock device (IID or BAIID) will never stop your car while you are driving. Most of the time an ignition interlock is going to beinstalled after you've been guilty of drunk driving DUI . HOW LONG AFTER YOU STOP DRINKING CAN YOU PASS AN IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE TEST? The short answer, as they say in relationship status, is it’s complicated. How long after you stop drinking before you can pass an ignition interlock device test depends on your gender, your weight, how much you have had to drink, how long you’ve been drinking, if you were drinking on an empty stomach, and more. It all has to do with how the human body, in this case, yours, processes alcohol. Your Body and Alcohol When you have a glass of wine with dinner, a few beers while wa