The National Sleep Foundation’s 2005 poll of Sleep In America stated that 60% of adult drivers (around 168 million people) said they drove feeling drowsy in the year of 2004, about 37% (approximately 103 million people) reported to have fallen asleep while driving, and 4% said they had experienced an accident because they were tired while driving (NSF, 2016). There are also estimations of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of 100,000 police reported crashes resulting of driver fatigue each year, this estimation takes us to 1,550 deaths, 71,000 injuries, and $12.5 billion in monetary losses, (NHTSA 2016). These statistics present the great impact that sleep deprivation has on drivers, specifically how it affects people’s motor
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There are also other effects that a low number of hours of sleep have on the system such as distraction and low awareness. For example, in the study by Jia, Pearlynne, and Michael 2016, they wanted to see the contrast of mind wandering and meta-awareness. Using two groups of sleep deprived individuals, and well-rested individuals. They had 48 randomly selected adults in the experiment, and these participants were asked to conduct a visual search task (being presented with series of letters and choosing the corrects one, followed by a thought probe which consisted on a few questions based on the visual search task that they had done. The results indicated that the larger the load of visual letters being presented, the more difficulty the task was for both groups. But, there were also results showing that the accuracy of well rested group performed was significantly better than the sleep-deprived group. The study demonstrate further how the sleep deprivation group had larger unrelated task thought than the well-rested group. It comes to show the relationship between mind wandering and task completion. These results link back to my study demonstrating the effects that little sleep has in the system. My study will attempt to illustrate how not being fully rested causes the motor system to malfunction and therefore not complete the task of driving
There are also other effects that a low number of hours of sleep have on the system such as distraction and low awareness. For example, in the study by Jia, Pearlynne, and Michael 2016, they wanted to see the contrast of mind wandering and meta-awareness. Using two groups of sleep deprived individuals, and well-rested individuals. They had 48 randomly selected adults in the experiment, and these participants were asked to conduct a visual search task (being presented with series of letters and choosing the corrects one, followed by a thought probe which consisted on a few questions based on the visual search task that they had done. The results indicated that the larger the load of visual letters being presented, the more difficulty the task was for both groups. But, there were also results showing that the accuracy of well rested group performed was significantly better than the sleep-deprived group. The study demonstrate further how the sleep deprivation group had larger unrelated task thought than the well-rested group. It comes to show the relationship between mind wandering and task completion. These results link back to my study demonstrating the effects that little sleep has in the system. My study will attempt to illustrate how not being fully rested causes the motor system to malfunction and therefore not complete the task of driving