Effects of Coffee and Napping on Nighttime Highway Driving

  1. Pierre Philip, MD, PhD
  1. From Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France.

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    Dr. Yee wonders whether 1 of our participants could have had a nocturnal visual deficit that could explain the driving handicap recorded during our nighttime driving sessions. All participants were healthy, including their perceptual and psychomotor functions. We used the expertise of our copilots (who are professional driving instructors) to test the normative driving patterns of our participants in a 20-minute session. As Dr. Yee mentioned, the normative data of our participants were homogenous in our paper as …

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    1. Ann Intern Med February 6, 2007 vol. 146 no. 3 229
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