Thursday, May 10, 2007

If you drive a car, read this

Those who get fewer than six hours of sleep a night might as well be drunk. The Sleep Foundation determined that people who remain awake for 18 hours straight function similar to drinkers with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent, the level states use to determine whether someone is legally impaired to operate a car.

--From Penelope Trunk's blog, one of my favorite blogs.

Read this article, too. Thank you, Penelope, for saying it like it really is.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

that explains my staggering string of bad decisions....