I've heard the FAA is contemplating new checkride standards for regional pilots. Since they are reluctant to solve the problems that they the FAA themselves create, like allowing antiquated and dangerous rest requirements to continue unchanged, the FAA may soon require all regional pilots to perform their checkrides with little or no sleep in the preceding 18 hours.

Theoretically, a pilot will report to a room with a loud T.V. and simulated voices piped in and remain there for 18 hours and then report for their checkride process. Pilots will be allowed short dozing periods, bathroom usage and junk food access, but no meaningful deep sleep can occur.

The FAA believes that simulating checkrides in more relaistic conditions is more beneficial to safety by actually quantifying the performance of a crewmember real-world and is more cost effective then actually forcing the airlines to abide by more modern data-supported rest requirements.

To tighten pilot rest requirements to that of truckers or limiting duty periods to that of air traffic controllers or airline dispatchers is apparently too much to ask, so a cheaper alternative may be coming.