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Road test for driver fatigue


Posted by Rob (Australia) on October 10, 2000 at 17:36:00:

Hello

Now and then the topic of driver fatigue is raised on this forum. Specifically, I am thinking of the links we sometimes discuss between UNTREATED OSA and driver fatigue.

On this theme, it might interest people to hear of a proposal being made here in Australia for highway police to be issued with a hand-held computer game which drivers thought to be fatigued will be asked to play. The driver will have a set time to complete the game which I gather will be some sort of graded test of physical alertness, reaction and response. The test will offer a score and if the driver is measured as being too tired to drive they will be required to pull over and take a rest. I think fines may be in the plan as well.

In the states, provinces, kingdoms and dukedoms inhabited by folk on this forum, has anyone encountered anything like this?

I am all in favour of the removal of fatigued drivers from our roads and I remember (hazily!) only too well what I was like when my OSA was untreated. I think now I am in better shape - fatigue wise - than the average driver on the highway. But I do worry that a campaign on driver fatigue may unleash a witch hunt for anyone with OSA, treated or untreated. I don't trust the politicians, the bureaucrats, the insurance companies or the police.

Rob

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