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Dehydrated? So what?

A study at Loughborough University in the UK found that mildly dehydrated drivers made errors such as lane drifting, late braking, or crossing over the middle lane, similar to people with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 per cent.

The researchers put a group of men to the test using driving stimulators. The first driving test was when the men were sufficiently hydrated and then they repeated the test when they were only mildly dehydrated.

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