Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

Re:Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this soon... by schoen on Friday July 29, 2016 @05:03PM (#12189972)

> I wonder if we as a society will ever come around to treating insufficient sleep similarly to drunkenness or distraction for drivers. My intuition says it's similarly dangerous.

There are some regulations about minimum amounts of sleep for airline pilots.

https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=1...

I guess it would have a high cost and intrusiveness to try to document individual motorists' sleep, but I can imagine that if self-driving cars catch on as broadly and as quickly as many people have predicted, fatigued driving could become much more stigmatized and punished than it is today.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this soon... by e12e on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:46PM (#12195123)

Also for truckers, bus drivers, people that drive for a living. Eg: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/social_provisions/d... (although, its "rest" not sleep. I'm not sure how you would mandate sleep - or monitor it in a sensible manner).

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Re:Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this soon... by superuser2 on Saturday July 30, 2016 @08:18PM (#12195197)

We also don't document their alcohol consumption - only when a car is pulled over on specific suspicion (modulo checkpoints).

Perhaps a field test of some of the markers shared by alcohol and drowsiness. Maybe test for micro sleeps, concentration, etc. similarly to how the effects of insufficient sleep are measured in a lab.

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