Sleepy Drivers: High time for action

Sleepy older drivers.

Are professional drivers less sleepy than non-professional drivers?

Objective It is generally believed that professional drivers can manage quite severe fatigue before routine driving performance is affected. In addition, there are results indicating that professional drivers can adapt to prolonged night shifts and may be able to learn to drive without decreased performance under high levels of sleepiness. However, very little research has been conducted to com...

Habitually sleepy drivers have a high frequency of automobile crashes associated with respiratory disorders during sleep.

Sleepiness is a common cause of traffic crashes with a cost of billions of dollars per year. A recent study has found that 2 to 3% of drivers are habitually sleepy while driving. However, there has not been a controlled study to define the characteristics, driving performance, or automobile crash rate of habitually sleepy drivers. The prevalence of respiratory disorders during sleep, and whethe...

On-road experiment for collecting driving behavioural data of sleepy drivers

Zusammenfassung Standardisierte Daten zum ungewollten Einschlafen bei gesunden Probanden wurden mit einem speziell ausgestatteten Fahrzeug unter realen Verkehrsbedingungen erhoben. Die Probanden fuhren unter normalen Bedingungen und mit ausgeprägtem Schlafentzug mit dem Versuchsfahrzeug.Der Versuch wurde durchgeführt,um neue Sensoren und Algorithmen zu testen,die in Zukunft kritische Situatione...

Sleepy Genes

wake states. Importantly, several conditions were used in this research including normal wakefulness (W), sleep deprivation (SD), SD followed by recovery sleep, and sleep in undisturbed mice. In most previous research, SD was generally considered simply a way to maximize wake (W), and in general, natural periods of W at night and periods of forced wake during SD had similar increased levels of ...