“Every 30 seconds, there is a road traffic accident caused by insufficient sleep in America“

• After 20 hours without sleep, you are as cognitively impaired as you would be if you were legally drunk
• There are spikes in traffic accidents during the later hours of the night, relative to the amount of traffic on the road
• In addition – “Road traffic accidents are a lot more deathly when caused by insufficient sleep, when compared to drugs or alcohol”
  • Why? – With drugs or alcohol, you tend to have a “late” reaction. When you’re extremely sleep deprived, you’re prone to brief “micro sleeps”, which can be fatal – you don’t have any reaction…at all. When you fall asleep, you won’t hit the breaks. At that moment, there’s a two ton missile traveling at 65 mph, and no one’s in charge.”
• A lack of sleep causes more car accidents than drugs and alcohol combined

// source: https://podcastnotes.org/jordan-harbinger-show/sleep-2/

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