The falling asleep at the wheel are almost worse than drunk drivers. The alarm was launched in Switzerland by the Office for Accident Prevention, which estimated that between 10 and 20% of road accidents are due to a sudden visit of Morpheus, which can decrease the attention, speed of response to emergencies and, consequently, the safety of those on board.
Almost like when he got up a bit 'too much to drink alcohol and in fact it is beyond the permissible limits. The Upi, in collaboration with the Swiss Touring Club, brought out the dangers of sleep at the wheel, the center of a public awareness campaign which kicks off today with the "national day of turbosiesta," which sounds more Hispanic than Swiss.
According to statistics, the fateful stroke of sleep occurs on average at different times depending on age: children under 40 years are particularly at night while those who have passed this threshold suffer the most during the afternoon hours, maybe soon after lunch when digestion suggest to stop and rest.
Remedies? "There are signs that should alert those who are behind the wheel," said a spokesman Upi. "Burning eyes, eyelids heavy, repeated yawning, blurred vision and a sensation of cold that perhaps leads to a heater with the effect of favoring the abbiocco. The only remedy is sleep, maybe in a rest area and even for a few minutes.
" Coffee or tea, of course, help in the process of alarm. Advice on how to defend themselves or how to prevent falling asleep at the wheel can be downloaded on the website of the Office of Injury Prevention. Fortunately, technology came to the rescue: a Dutch company has tested a device from € 200 (the Anti Sleep Pilot) that emits a loud sound when it detects - the blinking of the driver and 200 other factors - that those who is about to fall asleep at the wheel. 
Almost like when he got up a bit 'too much to drink alcohol and in fact it is beyond the permissible limits. The Upi, in collaboration with the Swiss Touring Club, brought out the dangers of sleep at the wheel, the center of a public awareness campaign which kicks off today with the "national day of turbosiesta," which sounds more Hispanic than Swiss.
According to statistics, the fateful stroke of sleep occurs on average at different times depending on age: children under 40 years are particularly at night while those who have passed this threshold suffer the most during the afternoon hours, maybe soon after lunch when digestion suggest to stop and rest.
Remedies? "There are signs that should alert those who are behind the wheel," said a spokesman Upi. "Burning eyes, eyelids heavy, repeated yawning, blurred vision and a sensation of cold that perhaps leads to a heater with the effect of favoring the abbiocco. The only remedy is sleep, maybe in a rest area and even for a few minutes.
" Coffee or tea, of course, help in the process of alarm. Advice on how to defend themselves or how to prevent falling asleep at the wheel can be downloaded on the website of the Office of Injury Prevention. Fortunately, technology came to the rescue: a Dutch company has tested a device from € 200 (the Anti Sleep Pilot) that emits a loud sound when it detects - the blinking of the driver and 200 other factors - that those who is about to fall asleep at the wheel.
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