Disrupting your usual sleep schedule can be...
Human factor: Physical factors
Explanation
Altered sleep and risk at the wheel
Changing habitual rest hours disrupts the circadian rhythm and causes **drowsiness**, **microsleeps**, **reduced visual acuity**, and **slower reflexes**. A microsleep of a few seconds involves traveling tens of meters without vehicle control, increasing the risk of **leaving the lane** and delaying **braking**. Attention, **decision-making**, and **danger perception** also deteriorate. For all these reasons, driving with altered sleep hours is **dangerous for road safety**.
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