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Found now. what are we looking at here? is that what you use to monitor me while i was out driving? >> yeah. this is exactly what we need called a mask. what its looking at and measuring is facial features, contrasts on your face. so it can look at your eyes, it can tell whether theyre open or closed and it can also assess your head position. >> the mask picks up head movements, hard to detect on the surface like the way my head is dipping right here and my eyes are straining to stay open here. ...

Boston bus driver caught sleeping on the job. this wasnt an isolated incident. happens all the time. drowsy driving is something a whopping 60% of americans admit to doing on a daily basis. i wanted to feel the firsthand effects of driving on a poor nights sleep. so i hit the road with a virginia tech research team. as youre about to see, the consequences are eye opening. watch. what happens to our bodies when we get behind the wheel after a poor nights sleep? to find out, i made a sleep sacrifi...

>> log on to wnnfans.com. >> its way less obnoxious than when people are posting about themselves. then its block about themselves. im doing this. >> kids arecomputer. >> alonzo is one hot baby. hes adorable. coming up, a musical great who learned a koscielny lesson about drowsy driving. jennifer aniston is setting things straight again. its all comin

>> i dont have a problem. >> its way less obnoxious than when people are posting about themselves. im doing this. im doing this. kids are computer. you cant blame them, they didnt post it. >> that little kid alonzo is one hot baby. hes adorable. coming up, a musical great who learned a costly lesson about drowsy driving. >> jennifer aniston is setting the record straight once again. its all coming up next in the skinny.

The north. >> thanks so much. >> it is the final day of our sleep series and if you didnt get enough sleep last night you may want to think twice about driving to work this morning. >> thats because according to triple a one out of every 8 crashes that require hospitalization are due to drowsy driving. how can you prevent a roadside tragedy? heres what i found out. >> 60 percent of adult drivers admit to doing them. about 1500 people will die each year because of this. we are not talking about d...

Doing this. about 1500 people will die each year because of this. were not talking about drinking while driving. >> she fell asleep around the wheel. >> or even texting. >> nodding off, its getting behind the wheel while youre drowsy that can be the killer. >> drowsy driving, how big of a problem is this? >> one third of americans have actually fallen asleep at the wheel at some point in their life. 13% have been found to actually fall asleep at least once a month. >> wow. the statistics are sta...

Behind a building for a couple of minute, but the cops, of course, always get their man and they did. gretch, over to you and brian and ainsley. >> gretchen: if youre just waking up and you feel like you didnt get enough sleep last night, you may want to think twice about getting behind the wheel this morning. staggering stats about drowsy driving. >> brian: according to triple a, one out of every eight crashes require hospitalization or due to drowsy driving. how can you prevent a road side tra...

At least once a month. >> this is staggering. >> very staggering. big problem. >> nobody knows just how big of a problem is more than the shaw family. >> the last thing i remember is going to sleep the night before and then i woke up three months later in a place unknown to me i was starting at square one having to learn how to talk, breathe, everything all over again. >> that is mora being pulled from her friends wrecked vehicle. she was 17 years old when a drowsy driver struck her on the highw...

Teaches a lesson. >> if you are drowsy at all, youre tired. dont get behind the wheel. because that can cause more harm than a lot of other types of reckless driving. and this is a prime example of it. >> the officer was released from the hospital less than 24 hours after the crash. the other driver uninjured. given a ticket for a moving violation. scary stuff. >> check this out -- >> drowsy driving has been linked to 100,000 accidents. more common in men than in women. >> i believe that. i was ...

As you quoted the statistic, its really an astounding number of people that are not getting sufficient sleep, that are getting less than that seven to eight hours of sleep. and a lot of those folks then have drowsy driving symptoms as a result. 5% of those polled actually have drowsy driving symptoms. and so the key really is getting -- one of the keys is getting sufficient sleep. so getting that seven to eight hours really is very key in helping us to maintain our vigilance, our reaction time, ...