Driving long distances or driving at night requires extreme caution. There are countless incidents where drivers have fallen asleep at the wheel due to exhaustion, leading to fatal accidents.
Many car manufacturers have recently introduced driver sleep alert systems in their vehicles. However, this feature is only available on high-end vehicles.
A driver in Nagpur has created a device that emits an audible alarm and vibrations to warn drivers not to fall asleep at the wheel.
The device, which has an implanted sensor, a 3.6-volt battery and an on/off switch, is worn behind the ear while driving. When the driver's head is tilted 30 degrees towards the steering wheel, the alert sounds and the device vibrates.
Gaurav Savvalakhe, driver and developer of the device, said he got the idea for the device after he nearly got into an accident while driving at night recently. He says he fell asleep while driving.
"I almost met with an accident while driving at night recently due to sleep," Gaurav Savvalakhe, driver and developer of this device, told ANI. " So I came up with the idea to creating a device that sends out a warning if someone falls asleep while driving, allowing an accident to be avoided."
"If we fall asleep while driving and our head is tilted at an angle of 30 degrees, the device will give an alert and vibrate to wake us up," he added.
This lifesaving device could help reduce the number of road accidents in India. According to government data, India registered 1.2 lakh cases death due to negligence related to road accidents in 2020, with an average of 328 deaths per day, despite the COVID-19 lockdown.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), in its annual Crime India report for 2020, revealed that 3.92 lakh lives have been lost in three years due to negligence related to road accidents.
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