Are You Sleeping Behind the Wheel?

The focus of our particular study was on truly non-driving related activities so eating, drinking, cell phone use and that includes texting as well as using smartphone apps or using other peripheral devices such as computers having phone calls. We did differentiate them talking to passengers there's plenty of research showing that conversations with passengers can be distracting sleeping for example grooming reading either a book magazine newspaper. Alex you mentioned sleeping I'm hard pressed to think that people intentionally do that behind the wheel but are you telling me that that they're turning on their partial automation systems so that they can take a nap get home safely? Well it's an unusual behavior  but some individuals who when feeling drowsy report that they