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Press contact: media@driveawake.ch
Drive Awake logo: PNG · SVG and high-resolution on request. Editorial images (Quinto set, covers) on request, per policy: no photos of the site or people. Publisher: Drive Awake; producer: Opening®.
Official photos (World Sleep Forum, Monte Verità, November 2025): The participants · The assembly · high resolution. Free editorial use with mandatory credit "Photo: Drive Awake"; no alterations beyond cropping; credit and terms are also embedded in the file metadata. Other uses: media@driveawake.ch.
Drive Awake is a Swiss platform, documentary and awareness project on sleepiness at the wheel, created by Matteo Fieni with Opening®, in collaboration with scientific partners (IRM Zürich, EOC Neurocentro). It communicates as artists using science: human before institutional, prevention before prosecution.
- ~30%of serious accidents in evening and night hours are linked to sleepiness (EOC Neurocentro, Prof. Mauro Manconi). Standalone figure.
- 12molecular features make up the classifier of acute sleep deprivation in oral fluid (IRM-UZH study: 20 men, three conditions; laboratory proof of concept, not a roadside test). DOI 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c01064.
26 July marks ten years since the Quinto case: sleepiness at the wheel and the limit of proof. Drive Awake opens a debate on prevention; a recent IRM Zürich study points to a possible direction. More: driveawake.ch/communications/quinto-2026.html?lang=en
Updated with the anniversary coverage.
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