01-19-2020, 05:39 AM
(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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