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Snooze alert

28th November 1996
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• In-cab computers which

Itop drivers falling asleep top t the wheel could be a eality soon if road transort organisations fund evelopment, says the niversity of the West of • Itop drivers falling asleep t the wheel could be a eality soon if road transort organisations fund evelopment, says the niversity of the West of • • ngland. It wants to organ' ise research into the symptoms of drowsiness and the onstruction of an antileep warning system. ' Sleep detectors could be tandard in truck cabs by 000 if research begins n, says Dr Chris Alford, UWE sleep scientist. He plans to tout for funds from organisations such as the Transport and General Workers Union, the United Road Transport Union, employers' trade associations and truck makers.

The research team has an Id Rover car which it is kitng out with sensors on the rakes, steering and accelrator. It wants to measure 1 i re-sleep symptoms for driers so that car engine anagement computers can alert the driver.


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