The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute recently released findings from a study conducted with a 100 car naturalistic study. Many of the participants were drivers that drove in the Northern Virginia, DC Metro area and the I-81 corridor to Virginia Tech.
The cars were equipped with monitoring devices such as cameras, Vorad radar units, accelerometers, lane tracking software, and an in-vehicle network sensor. The randomly selected video footage showed drivers yawning, closing eyelids, head-bobbing and micro-sleep at the time of crashes or near crashes. Other behaviors noted during these sleeping episodes included drivers running red lights.
The study was done on 18-20 year olds. Most of the incidents included daytime sleepiness.
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