10 Reasons Why "I Feel Fine" Is The Lie That Kills Drivers Every Weekend (And What State Troopers Use Instead)
Summary: Cheap drugstore breathalyzers use the same sensor in a $5 children's toy. They lie about your BAC by up to .04, the exact margin between safe to drive and 30 days in county. Fuel cell sensor breathalyzers like the SoberSense Pro use the same tech police carry on the side of the road. Keep reading to learn the difference.
1. You can stop trusting "I feel fine" — the lie that kills sober looking drivers every Saturday night
In 19 years as an Illinois state trooper I have arrested over 600 drivers for DUI. 562 of them looked completely sober when I walked up to their car. They were polite. They were coherent. They told me they felt fine. They were not fine. They were over the limit. The feeling does not match the number. The feeling never matches the number. The feeling is what your brain tells you when alcohol has slowed it down enough that it cannot evaluate itself anymore. The number is what a fuel cell sensor reads off your breath in 5 seconds. The SoberSense Pro is the device I now carry in my personal car. I read the number before I drive home from family dinners. I do not trust the feeling anymore. Neither should you.
2. You can stop using the $20 drugstore breathalyzer that lies to you
There are two kinds of breathalyzers on the market. Fuel cell sensors and semiconductor oxide sensors. Fuel cell is what police carry on the side of the road. Fuel cell is what every state trooper in my department uses on duty. Semiconductor oxide is the $20 device at the drugstore. The sensor inside it costs the manufacturer about $3 to install. It gives you a number on the screen that looks real, but the number can be off by .03 or .04. That margin is the difference between legal and illegal. Between drive home and 30 days in county. Between safe and dead. You cannot stake your license on a semiconductor oxide reading. The SoberSense Pro uses the same fuel cell sensor as the device in my cruiser.
3. You can use the same fuel cell sensor police carry on the side of the road
The breathalyzer in my cruiser uses a fuel cell sensor. So does the one in every patrol vehicle in our department. It is what I use to test drivers at DUI stops. My partner Daniel Reyes uses one in his personal car. He told me he tested it against the sergeant's calibrated cruiser unit three times last year. His personal device was within .003 of the police unit every time. .003. That is more accurate than the difference between two of my own cruiser breathalyzers. The SoberSense Pro is what he uses. It is what I now keep in my personal car. It is the only device I would trust my driver's license to.
4. You can catch the second glass of wine you do not remember pouring
Last month my own wife was at a Tuesday dinner with her best friend Susan and four other adults. They opened a bottle of cabernet at 7:15 PM. They opened a second bottle at 9:30 PM. There was a birthday cake at the end. Helen told me she had two glasses of wine across four hours and 45 minutes. She believed it. She was not lying. But the screen on my department breathalyzer at the scene of the crash read .11. The math does not work for two glasses of wine in a 45 year old woman. Across a dinner that long, with a second bottle opened, women lose track of who refilled their glass and when. The wine pour does not stop. The screen on a SoberSense Pro does not lose count. It tells you what you actually drank, not what you remember drinking.
5. You can avoid the 8 year sentence my own wife is currently serving
Helen is 6 months into an 8 year sentence at a state correctional facility two hours from our house. She is 45 years old. She will be 53 when she walks out. She has never had a parking ticket in her life. She was a third grade teacher for 18 years. She drank two glasses of wine across four hours at her best friend's dinner. She killed a 32 year old mother of three on the way home. A DUI that results in a death in Illinois is no longer a $19,000 problem. It is an 8 to 14 year prison problem. Plus civil suits from the victim's family that will follow her for the rest of her life. Plus the criminal record that will mark every background check forever. The SoberSense Pro costs $85. That is less than the bottle of wine that was opened at the dinner Helen drove home from.
6. You can protect everyone you love who drives after a drink
I bought four SoberSense Pros the week after the crash. One for me. One for my wife. One for my 22 year old son who is a senior at the University of Illinois. One for my 19 year old who just got his license. My older son drinks beer with his fraternity brothers on Saturday nights. He drives home from the bars near campus. He uses the device every weekend. He sends me a screenshot of his number when he gets home. Sometimes the screenshot is at 2 AM. Sometimes it is .04 and he is waiting another 30 minutes in the parking lot. Sometimes it is .00 and he is in his bed. I treasure those screenshots more than I can tell you. The device is the only protection a parent has when their adult child is 200 miles away. It is the only protection a husband has for his wife. The only protection a brother has for his brother. The only protection a friend has for his friend.
7. You can stop wondering if your spouse should be driving you home tonight
My wife was 45 when she made the mistake that took another woman's life. She had been married to me for 21 years. She had never had a DUI. She had never even had a speeding ticket. She had driven me home from hundreds of dinners and weddings and faculty events. I had been arresting drunk drivers for 18 years before it occurred to me to wonder what her number was on any of those drives home. The first time she would have blown into a SoberSense Pro was the night she should have at her best friend Susan's front door. The screen would have read 0.11. She would have sat in Susan's kitchen for another two hours. She would have driven home at 0.00. Sarah Mitchell would still be alive. The device asks the question every loving spouse should be asking every other loving spouse.
8. You can be the woman who carries one in her purse like Diane
I met a woman named Diane at Sarah Mitchell's funeral. She is the charge nurse at the regional hospital. She is the one who pronounced Sarah dead at 12:51 AM the night my wife killed her. Diane found me at the back of the church. She did not know I was Helen's husband when she walked up to me. She just saw a man in a uniform crying alone. She pulled a small black device out of her purse. She told me it was called the SoberSense Pro. She had been carrying one in her purse for two years. She told me she had bought 11 of them in those two years and given them to every wife of every drunk driver she had ever worked on in the ER. She told me Helen was not a monster. She told me Helen was a woman who did not know what her own number was. She handed me the device. That is how I came to own one. From a nurse who had spent two years quietly handing them out one by one to women like Helen.
9. You can stop pretending the feeling matches the number
Helen told me at the scene she had only had two glasses of wine. She told me she had felt completely fine. She told me she had not had a sip of wine in 81 minutes when she got in the car. She was telling the truth. The screen on my department breathalyzer read 0.11. The feeling does not match the number. The feeling never matches the number. The feeling is what your brain tells you when alcohol has slowed it down enough that it cannot evaluate itself anymore. The number is what a fuel cell sensor reads off your breath in 5 seconds. Every woman in America who has ever driven home from a dinner with friends and said "I am fine" has been operating on the same lie Helen was operating on at 11:24 PM at her best friend's front door. The only difference is most of them got home. Helen did not. Sarah did not. The SoberSense Pro is the only thing that tells you the truth instead of the lie.
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I have given a SoberSense Pro to every adult woman in my family. I have given one to Helen's best friend Susan. I have given one to the two other women who were at the dinner that night. I have given one to my daughter in law. I have given one to my next door neighbor. I have given them away because I know what they would have cost Helen to own and what they ended up costing Sarah Mitchell to not own. The device travels from woman to woman because the women who own one know exactly what they would give to have given one to the woman they used to be. You can start with one. Order it before this weekend. Sarah Mitchell came home in an ambulance because nobody at Susan's dinner table had one in their purse.
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