Beware The Danger of Drowsiness While Driving

Traffic accident is a very frightening factor that causes fatal accident. Every year, millions of men, women and children died or permanently injured due to traffic accidents. Estimated that, every minute two people died in traffic accidents worldwide.

One of the major causes of traffic accidents is the driver falling asleep momentarily or experience what is called micro-sleep. Micro sleep is the sleep episode lasted only a split second to thirty seconds. (If more than 30 seconds, it is called sleep).

Although only a flash, micro sleep is very dangerous in the event of a situation that demands constant awareness, such as driving vehicles or heavy machinery running. People who are usually unaware of micro sleep had fallen asleep or lose focus for a moment. When experiencing a micro sleep while driving a car, for example, the driver always feels in control of his car, and then suddenly realized that a few seconds have passed without awareness. In a situation with no awareness that brief, fatal accidents can happen.

Causes and symptoms of micro sleep

Micro sleep is a spontaneous reaction of self-defense because the body had a deficit of sleep, physical or mental fatigue, depression, sleep apnea, hypoxia, narcolepsy, or hypersomnia. Micro sleep may occur at any time without prior warning. However, in most cases micro sleep preceded by a common heavy drowsiness :

   1.       Often make mistakes. When driving, speed is often irregular, incorrect lines taking, etc..

   2.       Heads often nodding / drooping

   3.       Heavy eyelids, intermittent closing of one or both eyes

   4.       Headache

   5.       Evaporate

   6.       Feeling tired

Tips for you

To avoid the danger of accidents caused by micro sleep, consider the following two tips:

You need to take a break every 2-5 hours to drive to avoid tiredness. When having symptoms of severe drowsiness, you should immediately stop the vehicle for a stroll or a nap. Opening a window or turn up the volume radio only creates short-term effects, does not eliminate the danger of micro-sleep. Coffee, energy drinks or other stimulants only delay sleep episode as well and does not eliminate the threat. After the delay, micro-sleep attacks could then be more severe and unbearable.

Often difficult for drivers to recognize the symptoms themselves. If there are some people in the vehicle, make sure there are people who assist the driver to invite to speak and watching his consciousness. Insisted the driver to rest or freshen up if he showed some symptoms of sleepiness at the top. Better achieve your destination in a time much longer than an accident because of a rush to fast.

The correct way to stop your car/bike

Brakes are the most important safety device for a vehicle, be it two wheels or four wheels. Brakes are one - the only tool which serves to stop the vehicle, without good brakes on the vehicle can lead to something very dangerous or even a vehicle that has good brakes but without the ability to correct braking techniques, it also can lead to something are fatal.

1. Do not press the brake lever too strong

 Pressing the brake lever too strong or sudden hard when the vehicle is moving at high speeds it will make the vehicle longer to stop because the wheels of the vehicle will skid. It can make a motorcycle or a car and swerved out of control.

2.Use front and rear brakes simultaneously

Unlike the a car, motorcycle has two brakes, the brakes front and rear brakes separately. This allows one to use one of these brakes to stop the vehicle. Own each brake have different functions, depending on the situation required. In the standard condition of the vehicle or moving with high speed, highly recommended to use the front and rear brakes simultaneously.

Just use the rear brake while trying to stop the vehicle speed is less precise because the rear brakes function more as a counterweight to the front brakes. Meanwhile, the front brakes have a better ability in stopping the vehicle speed than the rear brake.

But also keep in mind, using only the front brakes when braking will make the bike lost balance on the back side and can allow the bike upside down.

3.Lower the gear position of the machine

For vehicles that do not have a manual system of automatic gearbox, lower gear position during braking may also help to stop vehicle faster and reduce the occurrence of tire skid.   

What do you need to drive?

• Consciousness : Don't underestimate a little bit drunk, drowsiness, and headache. It will reduce your concentration to drive.
• Enough driving skill : You can't instantly driving like a pro. You need an experience overtime for driving.
• Destination : If you understand your purpose for drive, you can anticipate which way would you go and can drive safely without fear to get lost. Remember, you need high concentration to drive.
• Car : Of course you need a car lol :) 

That's for today.

It's based on my experience. There is a lot more. I'll update it later.

 This is what you get if you have a low concentration.

Start with the Quotes

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.  ~Mary Ellen Kelly

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.  ~Mac McCleary

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.  ~Peter De Vries

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841

It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.  ~Author Unknown

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.  ~Dudley Moore

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.  ~Author Unknown

Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.  ~Author Unknown

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill.  It was yours.  ~Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.  ~H.G. Wells

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!  ~Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.  ~Arnold Toynbee

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.  ~Albert Einstein

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.  ~Author Unknown

Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.  ~Author Unknown

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.  ~American Proverb

Americans are broad-minded people.  They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him.  ~Art Buchwald, "How Un-American Can You Get?," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966

Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.
~Alan M. Eddison

Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.  ~Author Unknown

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.  If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.  ~Larry Lujack

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.  ~Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media

Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.  ~Author Unknown

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.  ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.  ~Edward Abbey

Restore human legs as a means of travel.  Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.  ~Lewis Mumford

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