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Sleepiness at the wheel is one danger seen through three lenses: what technology can do, what the law asks, what culture teaches us to ignore.

The machines that watch the driver - what they can do, and where they stop.

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How the Car Notices Sleepiness

Steering, gaze, lane: the systems that read the body's signals. What they can really do - and where they stop.

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What the camera sees - and what it cannot

The driver-facing camera promises a lot. But between seeing the eyes and understanding the mind lies a distance.

Responsibility, proof, fitness to drive - where the law meets a danger that leaves no trace.

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I have sleep apnoea: can I drive?

Diagnosis, therapy, fitness to drive: what Swiss law really says to those with a sleep disorder and a steering wheel.

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Ten years after Quinto: the limit of proof

A trial without measurable evidence. Ten years on, the question raised by the Quinto case remains open.

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Art. 31: responsibility before the journey

The law requires alertness before departure. But how do you assess what cannot yet be measured?

The habits and beliefs that keep us at the wheel when we should be sleeping.

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The sign that doesn't exist

There is a sign for nearly every danger on the road. Not for sleepiness. The story of an absence.

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Ramadan, sleep and the road

A month when the sleep rhythm changes. Care, not blame - the first reading through the policultural lens.

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The threshold: when waking becomes risk

You don't fall asleep suddenly: you slide. The border between waking and sleep is a place, with laws of its own.

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The cult of not sleeping

Little sleep as achievement, endurance as virtue. Where this idea comes from - and what it costs us behind the wheel.