Have You Ever Felt Drowsy or Fallen Asleep While Driving? You Are Not Alone!!!
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Eddie Toledo
Eddie Toledo is an online expert on home surveillance and safety and seeks only the best methods to share with the public.He spends his time online always serching the most innovative methods and always publishes them here for the public!For more information visit: http://www.prosafetytech.com By Eddie Toledo
Published on 02/25/2010
Everyone has experienced drowsiness while driving Some of us have actually fallen asleep only to be awakened by the blaring horn of an oncoming car
Everyone has experienced drowsiness while driving. Some of us have actually fallen asleep only to be awakened by the blaring horn of an oncoming car.
Sleep deprived driving is the operation of a motor vehicle while being cognitively impaired by a lack of sleep. Sleep deprivation is a major cause of motor vehicle accidents, and it can impair the human brain as much as alcohol can.
According to a 1998 survey, 23% of adults have fallen asleep while driving.[1] According to the United States Department of Transportation, male drivers admit to have fallen asleep while driving twice as much as female drivers.
250,000 drivers fall asleep at the wheel everyday, according to the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and in a national poll released last year by the National Sleep Foundation, 54% of adult drivers said they had driven while drowsy during the past year with 28% saying they had actually fallen asleep while driving.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Drowsy Driving is a factor in more than 100,000 crashes, resulting in 1,550 deaths and 40,000 injuries annually.
At some time, all of us have become drowsy while driving, and many of us have even gone to sleep. It's an eerie feeling; often one awakes without realizing he or she was asleep, except that there is no memory of the last mile of two of highway traveled.
When this happens, the best thing a driver can do is pull off the road and get some sleep, but this is often not immediately possible. That is why all distance drivers should carry a Nap Alarm and deploy it as needed.
This is one of those radical concepts that is so simple and logical that we wonder why we haven't seen these devices years ago. Also referred to as a sleep alarm or anti-drowsy alarm, a Nap Alarm is a compact, lightweight unit powered by tiny batteries.
It is worn by slipping it on around one ear, which leaves the ear exposed and hearing unhindered. When the head nods - the first sign of falling asleep at the wheel - an electronic sensor notes the change of angle and sets off a small, strident personal alarm, just loud enough to ensure that wearer/driver and any passengers come wide awake.
We fall asleep while driving partly because of fatigue, but also because various vibrations are sleep-inducing at steady frequencies. This is why it can happen so quickly. A Nap Alarm can increase drive security and peace of mind two-fold, because the driver does not have to be the sole judge of whether he or she is becoming drowsy. We can let the machine decide. After all, it's not a bit sleepy!
Owning a Nap Alarm will not turn us into endurance racers. The alarms are designed to save lives, not to replace sleep itself. As soon as yours goes off, start looking for an exit, have someone else drive or take other appropriate measures.
These devices can also be used by people whose jobs require that they maintain 100% alertness under difficult circumstances. Examples of these are machine and heavy equipment operators (vibration again) and security guards. Now that we all know about these alarms, and especially at a retail price of less than ten dollars, it's hard to find an excuse not to own one.
Avoid this potential tragedy by wearing the Nap Alarm on your ear. If your head should nod, an alarm will go off, waking you and any sleeping passengers in the vehicle.
Uses three AG13 alkaline button cell batteries (included).
For more information or to purchase your own, please visit:
http://www.prosafetytech.com/napalarm.htm
Sleep deprived driving is the operation of a motor vehicle while being cognitively impaired by a lack of sleep. Sleep deprivation is a major cause of motor vehicle accidents, and it can impair the human brain as much as alcohol can.
According to a 1998 survey, 23% of adults have fallen asleep while driving.[1] According to the United States Department of Transportation, male drivers admit to have fallen asleep while driving twice as much as female drivers.
250,000 drivers fall asleep at the wheel everyday, according to the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and in a national poll released last year by the National Sleep Foundation, 54% of adult drivers said they had driven while drowsy during the past year with 28% saying they had actually fallen asleep while driving.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Drowsy Driving is a factor in more than 100,000 crashes, resulting in 1,550 deaths and 40,000 injuries annually.
At some time, all of us have become drowsy while driving, and many of us have even gone to sleep. It's an eerie feeling; often one awakes without realizing he or she was asleep, except that there is no memory of the last mile of two of highway traveled.
When this happens, the best thing a driver can do is pull off the road and get some sleep, but this is often not immediately possible. That is why all distance drivers should carry a Nap Alarm and deploy it as needed.
This is one of those radical concepts that is so simple and logical that we wonder why we haven't seen these devices years ago. Also referred to as a sleep alarm or anti-drowsy alarm, a Nap Alarm is a compact, lightweight unit powered by tiny batteries.
It is worn by slipping it on around one ear, which leaves the ear exposed and hearing unhindered. When the head nods - the first sign of falling asleep at the wheel - an electronic sensor notes the change of angle and sets off a small, strident personal alarm, just loud enough to ensure that wearer/driver and any passengers come wide awake.
We fall asleep while driving partly because of fatigue, but also because various vibrations are sleep-inducing at steady frequencies. This is why it can happen so quickly. A Nap Alarm can increase drive security and peace of mind two-fold, because the driver does not have to be the sole judge of whether he or she is becoming drowsy. We can let the machine decide. After all, it's not a bit sleepy!
Owning a Nap Alarm will not turn us into endurance racers. The alarms are designed to save lives, not to replace sleep itself. As soon as yours goes off, start looking for an exit, have someone else drive or take other appropriate measures.
These devices can also be used by people whose jobs require that they maintain 100% alertness under difficult circumstances. Examples of these are machine and heavy equipment operators (vibration again) and security guards. Now that we all know about these alarms, and especially at a retail price of less than ten dollars, it's hard to find an excuse not to own one.
Avoid this potential tragedy by wearing the Nap Alarm on your ear. If your head should nod, an alarm will go off, waking you and any sleeping passengers in the vehicle.
Uses three AG13 alkaline button cell batteries (included).
For more information or to purchase your own, please visit:
http://www.prosafetytech.com/napalarm.htm