Who could use the Cold Diffusion Fatigue Fighter?
- Everyday people driving to and from work and on long trips
- Truck Drivers
- Military Personnel
- Security Personnel
- People afflicted with Sleep Apnea
- Traveling Sales personnel
There is a relationship between core body temperature and the ability to drift off to sleep when using our device. Our initial tests showed that is was possible to chill specific areas of the body and vary the body's ability to regulate core temperature which reduces the body's capability to go to sleep.
The Fatigue Fighter In Your Vehicle:
Our Cold Diffusion Fatigue Fighter is a device that can help prevent serious injury by fighting fatigue in drivers. The Fatigue Fighter greatly reduces the risk of falling asleep at the wheel.
In order to increase alertness and decrease drowsiness, a person's core temperature needs to fluctuate, which is exactly what the Cold Diffusion Fatigue Fighter does.
Injury and fatality related to traffic crashes is a significant factor in the overall premature loss of life and human suffering in the United States.
In the US over 40,000 people are killed in motor vehicle crashes and greater than 3,000,000 are injured every year. Driver fatigue has been identified as a major causative factor (Harris, 1977; Thyge, 1986; Hamelin, 1987).
Driver fatigue and associated performance deficits are experienced universally and can result in significant social, financial, and human costs (Durmer, et al, 2005).
There are over 1500 deaths, 70,000 injuries, and $12 billion in financial losses annually in the US that are attributed to driver fatigue. Single vehicle crashes often take place in uncritical traffic scenarios and are often the result of drivers’ drowsiness and inattention (Horne & Reyner, 1995; Kozak, et al, 2005).
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimated that police cite driver drowsiness as the precipitating factor of nearly 100,000 motor vehicle crashes reported in the US annually (Royal, 2002).
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) reported that more than one-half of adult drivers surveyed indicated that they had driven while drowsy in the past year and that nearly one in five had fallen asleep while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
Reyner and Horne (1998) asserted that common countermeasures employed by drivers to ameliorate the negative effects of fatigue and drowsiness, such as redirecting cold air directly onto the driver’s face via the vehicle’s air conditioning system, appear to be of only “marginal and transient benefit”.
The Fatigue Fighter In The Military:
Numerous fatigue related accidents and fatalities while driving occur in the armed forces not only during combat, but in all conditions and at all times. The general introduction of this device would perform an important National Security function with this life saving potential alone.
However, there are other, broader implications for the task alertness module.
It can prevent drowsiness during mundane and boring but critical functions requiring attention. This is important for guard and monitoring duties, but would also be useful for military personnel flying persistent surveillance predatory unmanned aircraft.
The Cold Diffusion Fatigue Fighter is in the process of developing a small battery/solar application.
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