Vehicle Ionisation
Strange things happen in the dead of night. A car leaves a dark and lonely highway at full speed, and slams into an unforgiving tree. On a busy freeway, a car, or worse still, a freight truck, drifts from its lane for no obvious reason and smashes into an oncoming vehicle, with devastating results.
More than likely, these crashes were caused by fatigue: drivers either falling asleep at the wheel or so exhausted they made serious - often fatal - driving errors. Fatigue is thought to be one of the biggest killers on roads. 'Loss of concentration' can also be a contributing factor. Slower reaction times, reduced vigilance and poor information processing.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Fatigue and Lowered Performance
Most experts estimate that 20% to 30% of fatal road crashes could result from driver fatigue.
Fatigue causes several problems for drivers. They are: slow reactions and decisions; slow control movements; decreased tolerance for other road users; poor lane tracking and maintenance of headway speed; and loss of situational awareness
Research indicates that 17 to 19 hours of sustained wakefulness produced similar or worse levels of performance on several performance tests as a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of 0.05g/100ml. While 20 to 25 hours of wakefulness produced performance levels for some tasks similar to that seen with a BAC of 0.10g/100ml 5 .
References: Road safety fact sheet (fatigue march 2008)
Related Products:
PICO Air Energiser assists in the prevention of driver fatigue and stress. It could also improve driver alertness and a reaction time.
For more information relating to ionisation please see the links to scientific studies on the more info page.