The Mythbusters have tested whether driving with cell phone is like driving intoxicated. I would like them to add driving while you are sleep deprived. If they wanted to redo both cell phone and intoxicated that is fine but really they would only need to repeat intoxicated then do sleep deprivation.

A news show tested the effects of driving tired. Tiredness is worse than drunkeness.

That driving while fatigued is another no-brainer about what you shouldn't do.

You shouldn't drive distracted on your cell phone, when you've been drinking, or too tired. Does it really matter which one is the worst when none of them are a good idea?

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Originally posted by jmpettyjohn:
The Mythbusters have tested whether driving with cell phone is like driving intoxicated. I would like them to add driving while you are sleep deprived. If they wanted to redo both cell phone and intoxicated that is fine but really they would only need to repeat intoxicated then do sleep deprivation.

Why do you think Long-haul drivers are required to take sleep-breaks by law? It is because sleep deprevation causes drivers to become more dangerous in traffic, because of them becoming inattentive..

And when you take in account that driving a big semi does take a lot of attention and a lot of skill, driving while sleep deprived isn't a very smart move..

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...h-deaths-620071.html

I knew Gary Hart (he was at the same college I went to - Boston (Lincolnshire, not Massachusetts...)) and he was a dozy pillock then, but sleep deprivation was very much regarded as the cause of this accident.

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Originally posted by Glyn:
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...h-deaths-620071.html

I knew Gary Hart (he was at the same college I went to - Boston (Lincolnshire, not Massachusetts...)) and he was a dozy pillock then, but sleep deprivation was very much regarded as the cause of this accident.

Whoever wrote the article must have been dozing off too..

He wrote the same paragraph twice

"Builder Gary Hart has been found guilty of causing the deaths of ten people by dangerous driving in the Selby train crash.

Builder Gary Hart has been found guilty of causing the deaths of ten people by dangerous driving in the Selby train crash."