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Big Don
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Re: Do you find it mentaly fatigues you to stick to the speed limit????	Sun, 14 August 2005 15:25

Well IMHO there's a coupla issues here, yes I believe driving slowly definately CAN fatigue you, that having been said you can always pump up the tecka's some nice loud dance music always helps (provided it's not phsy trance" that'll end up numbing u) I used to drive down to Bairnsdale from Melbourne every week for Tafe, would spend 3 days down there and the rest up here. My tafe course was for 2 years as well. This was back in the days of my U12 Pintara, only mods were a set of 16's up front and some farm mud. there are several tactics I've employed to fight off boredom and sleep. 1) Buddy system, wait until you find someone who is willing to speed say 150kph preferably, let them get far enough ahead that they stay in sight but not that if they arouse any cops that you wont get caught too, this is how it works, people who are speeding will very rarely sail past a cop and not at some point hit the brakes. so let him be your radar breaker, also if the cop has already got him on radar at 150 chances are they wont still have the radar gun out they'll be taking off to catch him by the time you come to them, having slowed down because you noticed he jabbed the brakes hard near some bushes or a bridge beside the road! 2) 5-10k's over, well I've only just recieved my full licence due to some silly little incidents when I was around 19, (23 now) but I've taught myself as much as possible to scan every car within sight for tell-tale signs of being a cop, at the speed limit scanning for cops is no longer an issue, if you drive just 5 k's or maybe 10 k's over then not only will you likely not get a "massive" slap on the wrist (warning only do this with a road-worthy car lol) but you still wont want to pay 160 fine so you'll be on constant alert for speed-camera's/coppa's this is a good thing because if you are concentrating that much on your surroundings chances are you will also be able to see an accident and avoid it before it occurs (concentration on surroundings is always highly recommended!) 3) In car entertainment, as mentioned before, some music that has good associations to you but preferebly not a type that lull's you (i.e. classical music or trance) I even know of someone who went so far as to put a DVD on their laptop, having the laptop on the passenger seat and earphones in thier ear, driving on "auto-pilot" and listening to the dvd, keeps the mind active and awake!! (obviously don't get a boring dvd though lol) though I will add a little disclaimer, don't do this, it's dangerous and if you get caught or have an accident while doing it Mr plod will throw the book at you (probably quite rightly) 4) one last technique I used was to play word games, think of a word then try and spell it from letters in road signs or number plates, even better constantly try and work out what each car approaching you is from the shape of thier headlights or the outline of thier car in the distance, again makes you concentrate on what is around you, on a long drive concentration will kill you much easier than straight speed at 110kph if you close your eye's for 1 second you can be off the road and into a tree, but at 180kph if you concentrate you can still not kill yourself. Coffee, Guarana etc while they may seem like good idea's are actually a bit of a trap, (I come from a family with 4 doctors, both parent's and 2 sisters) and they tell me that studies done on these "pep's" show that though you wont fall asleep your thought processes slow dramatically and as do your reactions potentially making it quite dangerous, Also as with any other "drug" what goes up must come down, maybe you feel great for the first 1/2 hour- hour after a cup of coffee, but what about after that, you start to feel much more drowsy again. so the answer is from my perspective yes driving at the speed limit can decrease concetration and be dangerous, my solution, don't look at driving as getting from point A to point B, make each drive an adventure, get into the driving and make it something you enjoy, it'll always be safer if you put effort into it! Cheers Big Don [Report message to a moderator]

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