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Simulated driving performance coupled with driver behaviour can predict the risk of sleepiness-related car accidents
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Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is associated with the risk of sleepiness-related car accidents and worse driving simulator performances. Nevertheless, driving simulator studies failed to predict the real-world accident risk. Two-thirds of patients with OSAS will never experience a car crash, so that restricting their driving licence because of an OSAS diagnosis is not feasible.1
Our previous studies validated a 30 min monotonous driving scenario (STISIM 300 Driving Simulator, Systems Technology, Hawthorne, California, USA) versus subjective and objective measures of sleepiness in healthy volunteers undergoing …