NHTSA drowsy driving program
Also: Asleep at the Wheel: A National Compendium of Efforts to Eliminate Drowsy Driving · NHTSA/NCSDR drowsy driving educational countermeasures
Federal program, begun in 1996 under a congressional mandate, that developed educational countermeasures with NCSDR (a shift-worker workplace program and a high-school program) and in 2015-2017 convened sleep and highway-safety experts to set a national strategy against drowsy driving.
- Years
- 1996–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- SleepTraffic safety
- Asks people to
- Stop
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- PrintWebsite
- Audience
- General publicYoung adultsGeneral public, shift workers, high school students
Evidence
NoneUnknown
NHTSA says outreach alone rarely changes driving behaviour and stand-alone campaigns would need pretesting, new information, long duration and substantial funding.
Sponsor (who paid)
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Federal government
- National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NIH/NHLBI) Federal government
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- NHTSA drowsy driving program (official page) sponsor
- Asleep at the Wheel-The Road to Addressing Drowsy Driving sponsor · 2017 · DOI 10.1093/sleep/zsx001 · PMID 28364516
- Countermeasures That Work: Drowsy driving - Communication and outreach reference
- NHTSA and NCSDR program combat drowsy driving (SWOV library record) sponsor
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. URL taken from web search results.
Record cases/nhtsa-drowsy-driving.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign