Originally Posted By: Tornado Red
Originally Posted By: crinkles
EXTREMELY STUPID AND DANGEROUS.
Travel during the day. 2 hours before sunnup until 2 hours after sundown. In summer, that is 18 hours of driving. in winter, maybe 14 (all depends on your latitude). SLEEP AT NIGHT.
the death rate is much higher during the night than in the day. if you can't get there in time driving like this then take a plane.
stopping every 2 hrs is good but I have found my sweet spot at about 3 - 4 hours depending on how demanding the driving is.
The question was asked, how to make long road trips easy. I answered that question.
Long road trips often involve driving at night; I also discussed how to make that easier and safer, by letting someone else with better vision be your trailblazer. Driving alone on a dark highway is risky; following someone else whose lights shine farther and brighter reduces those risks. I am not suggesting that you drive 18 or 24 or 30 hours straight, but that you rest when you're sleepy no matter whether it's day or night.
You may quote statistics all you like, but the objective is the beat the odds. Driving at night has advantages as well as disadvantages -- so you can save your insults.
I don't think it matters if you stop every 2 or 3 or 5 hrs to rest. If you don't get the sleep, you will crash. While the stop refresh you a bit and you feel fine when washing your face, drowsiness will come right back when you get back on the road, especially when there is no-one in the car having lively conversation with you. Instead of stopping all the time, just pull over and take a power nap. If it's during the day, I find that a large furniture store is a good place. I slept on a nice mattress during my drive from VA to El Paso once. I needed a good sleep and it was 1300 hr on a Saturday so no-one bothered me. I had a great sleep. I did the same on beach park bench before but I find that I would need to leave my wallet and all thing valuable in the car.
There is a place in Columbia, SC that I always stop by on my way to Florida. I can get a decent sleep for 10 hrs undisturbed and wake up in paradise.
Originally Posted By: crinkles
EXTREMELY STUPID AND DANGEROUS.
Travel during the day. 2 hours before sunnup until 2 hours after sundown. In summer, that is 18 hours of driving. in winter, maybe 14 (all depends on your latitude). SLEEP AT NIGHT.
the death rate is much higher during the night than in the day. if you can't get there in time driving like this then take a plane.
stopping every 2 hrs is good but I have found my sweet spot at about 3 - 4 hours depending on how demanding the driving is.
The question was asked, how to make long road trips easy. I answered that question.
Long road trips often involve driving at night; I also discussed how to make that easier and safer, by letting someone else with better vision be your trailblazer. Driving alone on a dark highway is risky; following someone else whose lights shine farther and brighter reduces those risks. I am not suggesting that you drive 18 or 24 or 30 hours straight, but that you rest when you're sleepy no matter whether it's day or night.
You may quote statistics all you like, but the objective is the beat the odds. Driving at night has advantages as well as disadvantages -- so you can save your insults.
I don't think it matters if you stop every 2 or 3 or 5 hrs to rest. If you don't get the sleep, you will crash. While the stop refresh you a bit and you feel fine when washing your face, drowsiness will come right back when you get back on the road, especially when there is no-one in the car having lively conversation with you. Instead of stopping all the time, just pull over and take a power nap. If it's during the day, I find that a large furniture store is a good place. I slept on a nice mattress during my drive from VA to El Paso once. I needed a good sleep and it was 1300 hr on a Saturday so no-one bothered me. I had a great sleep. I did the same on beach park bench before but I find that I would need to leave my wallet and all thing valuable in the car.
There is a place in Columbia, SC that I always stop by on my way to Florida. I can get a decent sleep for 10 hrs undisturbed and wake up in paradise.
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