Asleep at the Wheel—The Road to Addressing Drowsy Driving
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The Prevalence and Impact of Drowsy Driving
Studies have documented operator drowsiness, sleepiness, or fatigue as causal or contributing factors in aviation, maritime, and trucking accidents. However, estimates of the prevalence of drowsy drivers on the road and of the proportion of motor vehicle crashes that involve drowsy drivers vary widely. This study presents new estimates of the prevalence of drowsy drivers on U.S. roads and of th...
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Background Alcohol is the world’s favorite drug and the most frequently used and self-prescribed psychoactive substance in modern society (1). The problem posed by drunk drivers and the increased risk of a collision was recognized shortly after motor vehicles first appeared on the roads (2). Borkenstein and others established a quantitative relationship between a person’s breath-alcohol concent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sleep
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0161-8105,1550-9109
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsx001