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by unsupp0rted 1249 days ago
Off the top of my head, I was thinking a simplistic CAPTCHA-like device.

* "Here's 2 shapes. Press the triangle."

* "Here's 2 numbers. Press the bigger one."

It would have to be something a trucker can easily solve at a glance, barely taking their eyes off the road. And they get a couple tries, a couple warnings, and then a loud siren and the event gets logged with their employer. 3 strikes system or something.

There's a dozen ways this could fail, but it's a fun thought experiment: "how do you determine a trucker is awake and functioning, without distracting them too much, annoying them too much, getting too many false positives, or putting electrodes on their brain?"

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I remember, many years ago, using an alarm clock on my phone that used questions like that.

It was a clever solution to the problem I was having at the time, which was that I kept oversleeping because I got really good at shutting off the alarm before waking up enough to remember what alarm clocks were for.

WEF: "But...we want to put electrodes on their brain..."