Table 2.
HFC drowsiness scale.
| HFC | Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wide awake, vivid attention |
| 2 | Highly concentrated, focused attention |
| 3 | Attentive but calm |
| 4 | No activation, no drowsiness, no pronounced tendency for reactive behavior |
| 5 | Slightly dozing, ready to respond |
| 6 | Signs of drowsiness but effortlessly awake |
| 7 | Obvious drowsiness, but mainly focused on driving tasks |
| 8 | Battling with drowsiness. Difficulty with driving tasks, but mainly perceptual |
| 9 | Feeling foggy, listless, inactive for long periods of time, microsleep is occurring or may be occurring |