Driving At Night
The national safety council has announced that death rates are upped by three times when driving at night, but many of us are unaware of any special implications we need to consider when we are driving at night.
Ninety percent of drivers reaction times depend on sight, so the night impairs this quite dramatically. Depth perception, colour recognition and peripheral vision are all affected when the sun goes down, so accidents are three time s more likely to happen. An older driver needs twice as much light to see in the dark, so this could impact on the statistics of age in correlation to accidents.
Drowsiness, which is more prevalent in the darker hours, dulls concentration and slows reaction time, while alcohol, which most people tend to only consume in the evenings, slows reaction time, meaning that more fatal accidents happen statistically at the weekend, in the evening.
If you are feeling drowsy when you are driving, whether it be dark or light, make sure you wind the window down to get some air and pull over as soon as is safely possible.
More under twenty fives have car accidents in twilight, because the eyes have to constantly adjust to the changing conditions, and the variation between lights on other vehicles. Inexperience can also have a massive impact on driving in the dark, as the driver is less experienced on the whole, and cannot adjust again to another string.
If you are driving in the dark then make sure that you have Car Insurance. Cheap policies are readily available online.
This is a video report made by CBS5 'Good Question' with Ken Bastinda, where he has a talk with James Munn from American Technologies Network Corp. During this conversation James Munn describes Night Vision Technologies and the principles of their work.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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