HPE 158 Lecture 9: 9 HPE 158 (9)
24 Feb 2019
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"studies show that all of that stuff people tend to do - slapping themselves in the face, rolling the window down, radio up, singing - they"re convinced it helps. But it"s only a matter of seconds or minutes. And you can have a sudden sleep attack right in the midst of doing that," David dinges the scientist in charge of the penn study, says people who are chronically sleep deprived, like people who"ve had too much to drink, often have no sense of their limitations. But you bring them into the laboratory - and we have an open challenge to any ceo or anyone in the world, come into the laboratory - we don"t see this adaptation," he says. They got 241 volunteers to agree to have their cars wired with five cameras each. Over a year"s time they found that driving drowsy was the riskiest behavior of all.
