(ASHEVILLE) -- What if your car could tell you whether or not you were too drunk to drive? That technology may be around the corner. 11th District Congressman Heath Shuler has introduced a bill in Washington that would provide $12 million in funding over the next five years to the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, or DADSS Program.

That funding would come out of funds for promoting seat belt safety across the nation. Congressman Shuler says that program has basically had all the success it can and it's time to invest in other things.

National Mothers Against Drunk Driving President-elect Jan Withers says DADSS could cure the drunk driving epidemic. She says she wants no one else to feel the way she did when she heard her 15-year-old daughter had been killed by a drunk driver.

The systems being researched include one that could measure blood alcohol level by touch, the other would analyze the driver's breath.