How many times have you been driving and nodded off just for a second - or was it only a second? Maybe you have fallen asleep and didn't even realize it, only to wake up and find you were on the wrong side of the center line facing oncoming headlights. If you were lucky enough not to have a head-on collision, the incident most likely scared you and your passengers half to death, not to mention the driver and passengers of the oncoming car!

There are many reports of cars running off the road into a tree in the woods, off a cliff in the mountains or simply running into the center divider. These are serious situations which result in too many injuries and deaths every week, month and year. Quite often, survivors say that they thought the driver fell asleep at the wheel, and more often than that, if ...