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Drowsy driving is as deadly as drunk driving if not more and both can result in road accidents and fatalities due to slow reaction time and lack of alertness on the part of the person behind the wheel..
While so far there was no way to determine if a driver was fatigued or sleep-deprived at the time of accident, a new blood test could pave the way for taking legal action against drowsy drivers, reports The Guardian, adding that the test could be available within two years..
There has to be a system to check whether someone has had enough sleep, because they could be putting other peoples lives at risk, Prof Steven Lockley, a sleep expert at Harvard medical school, told The Guardian...
Dr Murarji Ghadge, ENT Consultant Surgeon and Sleep Specialist earlier told HT Digital that many people who are sleep deprived mistakenly think that they can work well on a few hours of sleep every night for an extended period of time..
The test to measure the number of hours a driver has slept could soon become a reality thanks to a team of researchers led by Clare Anderson, a professor at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University, Australia, that is currently working on it..
