[Auto] Study shows that driving on less than five hours of sleep is just as dangerous as drunk driving

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For most drivers it is logical that you cannot drive while intoxicated because it incapacitates the senses and makes them more prone to causing traffic accidents. However, not everyone knows that sleeping less than five hours causes the same effect as alcohol when driving a car.
A study published by a group of Australian researchers in the journal Nature and Science of Sleep, was based on the statistics that 20% of car accidents in Australia in the last 20 years were attributed to fatigue or exhaustion.
Using other data, the research team concluded that sleeping less than five hours is associated with twice the risk of having a car accident, the same as drunk drivers. In addition, the risk increases while there is less sleep.

 

“Some studies have even suggested that when a driver slept between zero and four hours the night before, they may be up to 15 times more likely to be in an accident,” the authors added.

The blood alcohol concentration limit in Australia is 0.05%, more than that is considered impaired driving. But there is no way to measure exhaustion like alcohol concentration is measured.

"There is no current way to assess roadside fatigue: there is no breath test or blood test that can assess how much sleep you have had or how affected you are," the scientists explained.


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