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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So dangerous.

I know a family who had a fatal car accident when one parent fell asleep at the wheel.

Just leave at 5am. [/quote]

No one asked for your opinion. Do you any useful information for the actual question asked?  Be gone Janet [/quote]

Pp is right though, it is really dangerous.  My parents had friends who lost their kid because he fell asleep at the wheel.  When I got my license they told me to stop driving if I got sleepy driving.  I’ve done a ton of long-distance driving in my life, and I’ll pull over and cat nap if I have to.  [/quote]

First assume that they have more common sense than you do (“my parents told me”) and that they don’t want to die. So then how would it  be dangerous because now they’re not driving when they are sleepy. Or they’re pulling over and cat napping when needed?

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I know a family that a lost someone because the driver fell asleep at the wheel. They regret driving overnight “so the kids could sleep” and they’d avoid traffic.

Most humans cannot work a long day and then stay up all night driving. Even if you don’t wreck your car, there will be police and other drivers on the lookout for drivers who are weaving, speeding, etc. You very well could be pulled over (noting drowsy driving causes the same affects as drunk driving—google it; and NJ implemented special laws against drowsy driving precisely due to the volume of related accidents on the turnpike).

You are better off getting some sleep and leaving at 5am. There’s no meaningful argument against that fact…which begs the question: why are you itching to start a long drive at 1am??? [/quote]

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