
A dashboard-mounted sensor monitors the driver’s state of attentiveness and focus, and then activates safety support systems accordingly.
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Here are some tips on how to improve sleep hygiene to ensure you're more alert while driving. Also, an ABC News Nightline segment demonstrates how easily a fatigued driver can lapse into microsleep.
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A new AAA study concludes that motorists ages 19-24 are the most likely to drive fatigued, despite crash risk.
Read More →Those who sleep less than six hours per night are three times as likely to be drowsy drivers, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania.
Read More →Two new vehicle alerts that track the amount of time a driver has been behind the wheel have been added to GPSTrackIt.com’s Fleet Manager vehicle tracking system.
Read More →Younger drivers are particularly prone to such fatigue when using these technologies, researchers found.
Read More →A U.K. research project involves recording eye movements using infrared cameras and measuring electrical brain activity using electrodes.
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The study also reveals the double standard that most drivers hold when it comes to engaging in distracted driving.
Read More →Out of 147,076 respondents in the study, 4.2% reported having fallen asleep while at the wheel during the previous 30 days.
Read More →WILMINGTON, DE — Nearly all drivers (96 percent) feel drowsy driving is an unacceptable behavior, yet almost a third (32 percent) admitted driving when they were so tired that they had difficulty keeping their eyes open in the past month, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety’s 2011 safety culture survey.
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