Performance or Impairment Testing is a much better alternative to Drug Testing for alcohol or heroin or PCP or being sleepy or having just broken up with your girlfriend or anything else that might cause a crash: require the driver to play a video game that proves they have good reflexes and quick reaction time.
This is not a new idea:
Performance Tests vs. Drug Tests. Dec. 25, 1990:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-25-fi-7155-s...
>The Factor 1000 test is simple and takes only about 30 seconds. It consists of a software program on a personal computer equipped with a special keyboard and a control knob.
>Before starting on a job, the worker uses the knob to try to keep a swaying pointer in the center of the screen. The pointer swings faster and faster from left to right, and the test ends when the pointer swings too far, as it inevitably does. Workers pass if they can keep it relatively steady long enough to show that they are up to their own, predetermined standard.
>The computerized hand-eye coordination test indicates whether a person is too impaired to work for any reason--drugs, alcohol or even because of a sleepless night.
The Advantages of Impairment Testing over Drug Testing to Improve Workplace Safety:
https://predictivesafety.com/the-advantages-of-impairment-te...
>Since President Regan’s mandate for drug testing Federal employees in 1988, many private sector employers followed suit, and continue to follow suit, by testing their employees for drug use, especially in safety-sensitive industries like construction and manufacturing, under the impression that drug testing helps create and maintain a safe workplace (1). However, more and more employers are beginning to recognize the limitations and detriments of drug testing as a tool for enhancing workplace safety, understanding that drug testing is not a preventative safety measure if it can be considered a safety measure at all. [...]
>Cultural changes notwithstanding, some experts have been advocating in favor of impairment testing over drug testing for many years because drug testing is not a preventative measure, as described above. A 2010 report by the National Workrights Institute put it succinctly:
>Impairment testing is the practice of determining which workers in safety sensitive positions put themselves and others at risk by directly measuring workers’ current fitness for duty. Urine testing, in contrast, attempts to determine which workers have used specific substances known to cause impairment in the relatively recent past. (10)