Long-distance driving or driving at evening necessitates excessive warning. There are umpteen incidents the place drivers have fallen asleep whereas driving as a consequence of exhaustion, leading to deadly accidents.

Many automotive makers have lately launched driver sleep alert techniques of their automobiles. However, this characteristic is barely accessible in high-end automobiles.

A Nagpur-based driver has now created a tool that raises an alarm sound and vibrations to warn drivers in opposition to falling asleep behind the wheel.

The machine, which has an implanted sensor, a 3.6-volt battery and an on-off swap, is worn behind the ear whereas driving. When the motive force’s head tilts 30 levels in the direction of the steering wheel, the alert sounds and the machine vibrates.

Gaurav Savvalakhe, driver and developer of this machine, stated that he got here up with the concept of making the machine after he virtually met with an accident whereas driving at evening lately. He stated that he fell asleep whereas driving.

“I virtually met with an accident whereas driving at evening lately as a consequence of sleep,” Gaurav Savvalakhe, driver and developer of this device, told ANI. “So I came up with the idea of creating a device that sends out a warning if someone falls asleep while driving, allowing an accident to be avoided.”

“If we go to sleep whereas driving and our head tilts at a 30-degree angle, the machine will sound an alert and vibrate to wake us up,” he added.

This life-saving device could help reduce the number of road accidents in India. According to government data, India registered 1.2 lakh cases of deaths due to negligence related to road accidents in 2020, with 328 people dying per day on average, 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 had been lost in three years owing to negligence related to road accidents.

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