Simpler Antidote for Heavy Eyelids

           This article is about an item called the Anti Sleep Pilot. It is a device that drivers can by for $179 and put on the dashboard of their car. When you first get it you are required to answer a series of questions, which cover the 26 different fatigue factors. Then once you start driving the devices monitors you as you drive to determine if you are becoming drowsy. It periodically makes you touch the device to show that you are still capable of driving. It then monitors your response time to the device and others factors to determine if you are sleepy or not. The drowsier it thinks you are the more often it beeps and requires you to touch it. Eventually when it determines that you need a rest, a loud alarm sounds and the light goes red.

            This article relates to us in many ways. One of them being that most of the kids in our class can either drive or are getting their permits very soon. And this is a very big topic in the car industry now a day. Mercedes and Volvo are two leading car companies who have been trying to find a new system to install in their cars to prevent car accidents from drowsy drivers. If these devices prove to be helpful and work for the drivers it would be a huge advantage.

            I thought that overall this was a well-written article and provided a lot of good and interesting information about these new devices. The only problem was that they did not talk about how this particular device works enough. They spent a lot of time on other information which wasn’t as important.

Quain, John R. Simpler Antidote for Heavy Eyelids. New York, New York: New York TImes, 2011. N. pag. Web. 22 May 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/automobiles/22DROWSY.html?ref=technology>.