Sleepiness and Road Crashes: Challenges of Definition and Measurement
The Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the University of Adelaide, Australia, has released a literature review on the topic of sleepiness and driving. The report includes recommendations for countermeasures and future research needs.
Topics covered include the prevalence of sleepy driving, the difficulty of defining and measuring sleepiness-related crashes, the effects of sleepiness on laboratory measures related to driving performance, the effects of sleepiness on driving performance as measured by driving simulators or on-road studies, and issues related to the measurement of sleepiness.
This Summary Last Modified On: 8/3/2011