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[quote user="Murphy Siding"] [quote user="Bucyrus"]"But technologically, it won't be hard to fix. I'll bet you that we actually hear about this breakthrough development within a year. It will be like a dead man control, but it will be far more sophisticated. It will be able to detect whether a person is sleeping, fatigued, exhausted, or tired. It is really not far fetched at all. I'll have to think of a good name for it. "[/quote] The quote from the first post is written like there was an expectation that technology would provide a breakthrough development within a year- as in a *fix* for the problem.  What you have referenced in the link to the night-cap thingy is simply a high tech way to know when there is a problem, but not a way to fix the problem.[/quote] When you say it does not solve the problem, it indicates that you do not understand the problem.  Although perhaps it is fair to say there is more than one problem. The “problem” I am referring to is not that an employee falls asleep, although that is a problem.  But the larger PROBLEM that I am referring to is the problem for the company to find out which employees engaged in dangerous work have shiftwork sleep disorder so they can take them out of service.  The industry must accomplish this task in view of the latest implications of nightshift sleep disorder.  This is because, under the terms of this syndrome, the company is directly responsible for an employee causing a wreck due to falling asleep.  This combination of the syndrome and the shift in liability is relatively new.  This is not the old problem of being tired at night because of not getting enough sleep during the daytime.    The SmartCap can also serve as a wakeup alarm far more effectively than the deadman pedal or the current alter systems.  But, as I say, the larger task will be to record how fatigued an employee is, and every instance of falling asleep.  Therefore, more than anything else, the SmartCap is a measuring tool that will be essential in solving the number one problem of discovering who is afflicted by nightshift sleep disorder.
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