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Do not drive drowsy! It's can be as dangerous as driving drunk.
...I'm tempted to believe that drowsy driving often intensifies the menace of drunk driving.
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Cars with computerized driving will make driving while drunk, drowsy, angry, or texting practically impossible.
I have a suspicion that drunk drivers are often angry or drowsy, accentuating the bad effects of drunkenness.
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(08-12-2016, 11:19 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Cars with computerized driving will make driving while drunk, drowsy, angry, or texting practically impossible.
I have a suspicion that drunk drivers are often angry or drowsy, accentuating the bad effects of drunkenness.
I have something to confess: I have sleep apnea, and inadequate sleep in the previous night has caused me to doze off in the middle of the afternoon. I usually get adequate warning -- about five minutes, in which time I usually have the chance to pull off the road. I have experienced it two miles from home and had to pull off into a parking lot. I try to avoid highways with long distances between exits, which most particularly means two long stretches of the Indiana Toll Road.
I now use a C-PAP machine which makes such incidents far rarer.
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(01-19-2020, 05:39 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I have something to confess: I have sleep apnea, and inadequate sleep in the previous night has caused me to doze off in the middle of the afternoon. I usually get adequate warning -- about five minutes, in which time I usually have the chance to pull off the road. I have experienced it two miles from home and had to pull off into a parking lot. I try to avoid highways with long distances between exits, which most particularly means two long stretches of the Indiana Toll Road.
I now use a C-PAP machine which makes such incidents far rarer.
Glad to hear you are able to overcome you condition. I agree that drowsy driving is dangerous. My solution is usually to get some coffee at a gas station, or to roll the window down (hard to doze off with the wind in your face).
Frankly, all kinds of distractions are a danger when driving, even something as simple as messing with the radio. We didn't need texting on cell phones to come into existence for distracted driving to be a thing, though the cell phone makes it pretty bad since it demands significant focus and attention and since everyone has one now.
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