What is the debate over the Intoxilyzers reliability and accuracy?
The potential reliability flaws debated are too numerous to cover them all here. However, of particular importance are: • Neither the manufacturer nor the DPS will allow anyone, other than law enforcement personnel, to test either the machine’s accuracy or its reliability. It is generally understood that for a procedure to be accepted as accurate and reliable in science, that it must be open and available for the scientific community to test and re-test the procedure. This is not the case with the Intoxilyzer. • The manufacturer does not warrant that the Intoxilyzer is fit for any particular purpose. This fact clearly is an implicit admission by the manufacturer that its machine is not even warranted as accurate and reliable for breath testing. • The Intoxilyzer is capable of breath preservation. However, our DPS purposely fails to require the breath specimens to be saved. So, while re testing of preserved breath specimens could be done by a more accurate and reliable method known as g
