Drunk driving is a real problem with tragically real consequences. People have been drinking since the first fermented beverage was brewed over 6,000 years ago. However, until the first automobile was invented in 1885, drunken people did not have the opportunity to pilot a steel box on wheels, powered by extremely flammable fuel and capable of going at extremely high speeds. Society has been wrestling with the problem of impaired driving for many decades now, but people are still dying because of it. In 2006 in California, 1,597 people died in alcohol-related crashes, according to statistics released by the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration.