Wake Up from microsleep with the Mercedes-Benz alarm

From Newlaunches.com:

The normal human reaction to over-fatigue is "Microsleep"�. The Symptoms include burning eyes, eyes that blink frequently but more slowly, pupils becoming smaller, yawning and shivering. Adding just one second to the time an eye stays closed while blinking in a vehicle traveling 60 mph renders the vehicle driverless for 88 feet. We think that when your body clock is telling you to take rest, then you have no business to be behind that wheel and endanger your life! Well for persistent people Mercedes Benz is working on several different systems to warn drivers of the early stages of microsleep. This system will monitor your eyes to detect altered blinking patterns. Should it detect a pattern, it will beep an alarm to get you back from slumberland. There is also a system that monitors driving habits and enters values into an algorithm. When the driver's driving patterns fall out of the calculated range, such as no steering movement for a long period of time, an alarm is triggered. With all said and done, though this system is a good idea, we feel self restrain is the best option. If you're so damn tired and sleepy, you might as well pull over at the next stop and take a break.

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