Driver fatigue/microsleeps have overtaken alcohol and speed as road cause of death

[warrior queen]

And there is absolutely no way to detect it.
Or prevent it.
I am rigid with my rest stops and monitoring my tiredness levels when driving because I have had a microsleep close call once many years ago - knocked down 8 roadside markers before 'snapping' awake and correcting. Luckily, I was on a flat stretch of road with no traffic!

Has this happened to you?

I would not be surprised to learn that microsleeps and fatigue are responsible for many, many more crashes. Given our super-busy lifestyles and time-poor lives.

 

[ReadyMike]

The big automakers are working on this problem. Foreseeable misuse is a huge product liability problem in the U.S.(except for gun manufacturers, which are exempt).

A regulatory push is expected in the next three years (if current trends hold).

A quick search of automotive trade magazines in your country might reveal the same.

 

[Starscream_UK]

I once worked 48 hours straight when I was 18 and had a little micro-sleep episode driving home. Nothing serious happened as it was 2:30 in the morning on a road with no traffic but they are scary.

Having said that, I do know that I sometimes have a micro-sleep at work some 23 years later!

 

[Super-Surprise]

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1266600


Lack of skill ranks high as well.

 

[warrior queen]

The big automakers are working on this problem. Foreseeable misuse is a huge product liability problem in the U.S.(except for gun manufacturers, which are exempt).

A regulatory push is expected in the next three years (if current trends hold).

A quick search of automotive trade magazines in your country might reveal the same.

They're trialling a face-recognition gizmo in trucks atm, which recognises when you blink too often or your head droops and sets off an alarm to wake you.
But it's easy to disarm the alarm and of course relies on driver reaction.
Not ideal.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

And there is absolutely no way to detect it.
Or prevent it.
I am rigid with my rest stops and monitoring my tiredness levels when driving because I have had a microsleep close call once many years ago - knocked down 8 roadside markers before 'snapping' awake and correcting. Luckily, I was on a flat stretch of road with no traffic!

Has this happened to you?

I would not be surprised to learn that microsleeps and fatigue are responsible for many, many more crashes. Given our super-busy lifestyles and time-poor lives.

Blame truckers being stuck with 10+ hour drive times thanks to Bush-era regulations.

 

[Sean Renaud]

What regulations?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I rarely drive any more. Once or twice a month to run errands and pick up supplies. Only in daylight, never dark. Even then, only for 20-30 minutes at the most on any one leg of the trip.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

What regulations?

http://www.foreffectivegov.org/node/10520

 

[Sean Renaud]

Thank you kindly.

 

[neci]

thanks be to fitbit.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

And there is absolutely no way to detect it.
Or prevent it.
I am rigid with my rest stops and monitoring my tiredness levels when driving because I have had a microsleep close call once many years ago - knocked down 8 roadside markers before 'snapping' awake and correcting. Luckily, I was on a flat stretch of road with no traffic!

Has this happened to you?

I would not be surprised to learn that microsleeps and fatigue are responsible for many, many more crashes. Given our super-busy lifestyles and time-poor lives.

No. Never. Crazy shit only happens to you.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Long trips at night are the worst with oncoming headlights alternately constricting your pupils and then trying to open back up to see. Just brutal.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Long trips at night are the worst with oncoming headlights alternately constricting your pupils and then trying to open back up to see. Just brutal.

Sounds like cataracts.

 

[Que]

Microsleeps are absolutely detectable. Yes I have had them. I never did until I strated driving professsionallly up to 16 hours a day often at 8mph for nearly an hour at a time. It lulls you into it.

The company invested in cameras that detect even that thousand yard stare. the camera knew where you were looking, and for a long.

I un-trained myself to be able to sleep while driving. I can tell when a micro sleep is imminent and I take extreme measures like shouting and moving in my seat to fend it off. I went on to have thousands of hours in the seat with no micro sleep ncidents