On-Demand Driver Vigilance Enhancement without Explicit Drowsiness Detection - Further Analysis of the Pilot Study Results.

CONCLUSIONS: This limited pilot study observed that one's pain threshold may or may not initially decrease as originally hypothesized depending on the participant, but then increases as one becomes drowsier. While not definitive, the methods and results of this study may help to refine our hypotheses and design future studies in pursuit of a detector-free on-demand driver vigilance enhancement that exploits our body's endogenous alert mechanism. PMID: 28318305 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research