Night driving - what do you think?

[ThomasSoerensen]

Hi all
After reading this report of a study on driving when tired I agree that driving tired can be dangerous but a blanket ban on driving more than 2 hours in the dark.

Being tired behind the wheel as bad as being drunk - Telegraph

What kind of attitude is that!?1?!

There must be another way to reduce the danger.

[TimberWolf]

How will they know, will you have to yawn into a sleepaliser?

IGMC

[dang65]

Hi all
After reading this report of a study on driving when tired I agree that driving tired can be dangerous but a blanket ban on driving more than 2 hours in the dark.

I think a blanket ban is a sensible idea. Horrible, itchy things. Personally, I favour a cosy duvet when I'm driving at night.

[BoredBloke]

Hi all
After reading this report of a study on driving when tired I agree that driving tired can be dangerous but a blanket ban on driving more than 2 hours in the dark.

Being tired behind the wheel as bad as being drunk - Telegraph

What kind of attitude is that!?1?!

There must be another way to reduce the danger.

Pretty rubbish that. It might be harder to drive at night, but if they put proper cats eyes in, things would be easier. As the roads are quiet, I quite like doing late night driving.

[ThomasSoerensen]

How will they know, will you have to yawn into a sleepaliser?

IGMC

The will not have to know.
The question is "How do you prove that you are innocent?"

[ThomasSoerensen]

Pretty rubbish that. It might be harder to drive at night, but if they put proper cats eyes in, things would be easier. As the roads are quiet, I quite like doing late night driving.

Yes, fuelled by Coffee or Red Bull or Coca Cola - I also find night driving relaxing and nice and empty on the highway.

[NotAllThere]

Pretty rubbish that. It might be harder to drive at night, but if they put proper cats eyes in, things would be easier. As the roads are quiet, I quite like doing late night driving.

No cats eyes in my neck of the woods - the snow ploughs would scrape them off.

When would driving be considered to be nighttime driving? Especially in winter, in Scotland, for example? Or will it be only between midnight and 4am? And how the zarking fardwarks would it be enforced?

There's a spot in Serbia, about 1000km from Berlin, which is notorious for crashes caused by tiredness. It's on the main route from Berlin to Turkey...

[TykeMerc]

That will work really well in the UK where mid winter it's dark by 4pm, I'd imagine it's the same in many parts of northern Europe.

1. How could it possibly be monitored?
2. What constitutes a break?
3. The test conditions they used were almost perfectly soporific, constant speed on motorways.
4. The point about young drivers being prohibited from driving at night is ludicrous. The Police utterly fail to enforce many other motoring laws effectively, hell with ANPR available look at how many uninsured/untaxed cars there are on the roads, how often you see people holding a phone, not wearing a seatbelt.

Still I suppose the Telegraph filled some column inches with news of a reasonable bit of research even if some of the comments and conclusions are a tad silly.

[MrRobin]

Yeah night time driving on the M-way is great... nice and easy...

until you see this:

[SueEllen]

That will work really well in the UK where mid winter it's dark by 4pm, I'd imagine it's the same in many parts of northern Europe.

Don't forget driving in the morning before 8am in winter. If you set off at 5am you could easily be driving for 2 or more hours in the dark.

Anyway the research in the article is not statistically valid for a number of reasons including the sample size, the age of the participants and the gender of the participants.