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The impact of stress caused by car driving on heart's activity has been extensively studied for over 60 years. In the present paper, we studied the influence of stress on drivers' heart rate. The algorithm was applied on electrocardiographic signals from 6 drivers, and the resulting heart rate variability parameters in the time domain were analyzed comparing those in normal conditions to those in...