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In this work, the focus is on developing a system that can detect hypovigilance, which includes both drowsiness and inattention, using Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electromyogram (EMG) signals. Drowsiness has been manipulated by allowing the driver to drive monotonously at a limited speed for long hours and inattention was manipulated by asking the driver to respond to phone calls and short messaging services. ECG and EMG signals along with the video recording have been collected throughout the experiment. The gathered physiological signals were preprocessed to remove noise and artifacts. The hypovigilance features were extracted from the preprocessed signals using higher order spectral features. The features were classified using k Nearest Neighbor, Linear Discriminant Analysis and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis. The bispectral features gave an overall maximum accuracy of 96.75% and 92.31 …