Apparatus for assessing, predicting, and responding to driver fatigue and drowsiness levels

A non-transitory computer-readable storage device comprising:

• an input interface module that, when executed by a tangible, hardware-based processing unit, receives sensed driver-health data indicating a present driver health factor of a vehicle driver;
• and
• an activity module that, when executed by the tangible, hardware-based processing unit:
• obtains the sensed driver-health data;
• determines, based on the present human-driver health factor, fitness of the driver to operate a vehicle, yielding a fitness determination;
• and
• determines, based on the fitness determination, a manner by which to adjust presentation timing of a navigation notification to be provided to the driver via a local hardware interface.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage device comprising:

• an input interface module that, when executed by a tangible, hardware-based processing unit, receives non-vehicle-driving driver-health data indicating a non-vehicle-driving health factor pertaining to a potential driver, wherein the input interface module receives the non-vehicle-driving driver-health data while the potential driver is not operating a vehicle and before the potential driver is operating a vehicle;
• and
• an activity module that, when executed by the tangible, hardware-based processing unit:
• obtains the non-driving driver-health data;
• obtains non-driving other-person-health data indicating a non-driving other-person health factor of a person other than the potential driver;
• and
• determines a fitness of the potential driver to operate the vehicle, based on the non-vehicle-driving driver-health data and the non-driving other-person-health data, yielding a pre-driving fitness determination.