Drunk Driving

In 2015, 10,265 people died in alcohol-impaired crashes, an increase of nearly 300 from the year before. Every day, twenty-eight people in the United States die in a drunk driving vehicle crash (NHTSA). When you really think about it, that is one person every fifty-three minutes. Lets do something about it. This virtual reality experience will take you through the journey of an intoxicated individual. For example, when the app is first accessed, the user will be able to choose one of six stages of intoxication. One or two shots, Smear phase, Muddy phase, Can’t stand phase, Paralyzed phase, and last the Danger phase. Lets say one chooses the fourth stage. The fourth stage starts at a bar. You are the in the bar with some friends and hours go by and you now have a blood alcohol level of 0.16. That is twice the legal BAC level. You think you are okay to drive; however, you really are not. Users of this will start to feel dizzy or in other words, feel like a drunk person. Users will actually be able to feel how dangerous it is to drive under the influence and the app will be designed to see how difficult it is to drive intoxicated. At some point in the stage, a police officer will approach you and the user of this will have to attempt to walk on a straight line using your own balance and movements. The vision will become blurry and it will actually seem as if in reality you are really under the influence. As the stages increase, so does your risk of being involved in a crash alone or even with someone else. These situations can result in death involving either yourself, whomever you are with, or a total stranger. The purpose of this app is to create a sense of emotion and to decrease or altogether stop the effects of driving under the influence. This is a learning experience for those who do drink and for those who do not drink. By the time you finish all the stages, users will have a different insight as to how mistakes of yourself can affect someone else or how if it were you struct by a drunk driver, how someone else can effect those you love. Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Would you want to suffer the consequences because of your carelessness?