A DOD research institute recently tested 560 enlistees on WayPoint and compared the results to a two-hour battery of survey questions on driving, drinking, speeding, anger, etc.  Also collected were data on the sleep habits of participants.  The results support the extraordinary predictive power of WayPoint that we have seen in trial after trial.

First, it will come as no surprise that young people are more in agreement with speed/risk questions (for example, "I speed up when I am about to cross through a yellow light") than are older people.  In the graph at right, enlistees 18 to 21 were in greater agreement on every one of these factors.  No wonder, then, according to NHTSA data, teenagers represent 7% of the population yet they have 14% of the traffic fatalities and 20% of the collisions. 

Now consider only the enlistees who were older than 21, the age of commercial drivers.  WayPoint, as usual, classified them into two groups:

Low Risk.  The profile of the great majority who are low to average in their history of having preventable collisions.

High Risk.  The profile of those who are in the upper 15^th percentile for crash frequency and/or severity.

How did the drivers in those two groups score on the driving/drinking/speeding factors described above?  Drivers whom WayPoint classified as High Risk not only had many more preventable collisions, they also agreed more strongly with statements about speeding, anger, drinking/driving and risk.  This finding is all the more remarkable when it is recalled that WayPoint assesses a driver's visual information processing ability---and does so in only four (4) minutes.

But that is not all.  WayPoint also predicted the tendency of a driver to be sleep-deprived, the subject of extensive, recent government research with over-the-road truck drivers.  The DOD study measured "sleepiness" in two different ways.  In the first, sleep-related questions (for example, "I have to continue driving when I feel sleepy") were summed to produce a "sleepiness" factor; the higher the score, the more strongly the person indicated 'sleepiness". 

The results are shown in the top graph at right.  Regardless of age, people with the WayPoint High Risk profile reported being sleepier.  The

bottom graph, based on the question "How much sleep do you get at night?" shows the same thing: High Risk people get less sleep.