Falling Asleep at the Wheel
This is the most dangerous thing about falling asleep at the wheel, is that as soon as you actually fall asleep - in almost every instance, it's only a few seconds before your sailing off the road or sailing into the path of the oncoming traffic..... and it really is that quick.
You can actually look up "falling asleep at the wheel" + "compilation" on Poo Tube, and you can see when they actually fall asleep, then you can count, "One and Two and Three and BANG!" It's frighteningly quick.
If you are REALLY tired, it's better to stop and have a good lay down type sleep, for half an hour or an hour or two hours, than to die in a crash.
And depending upon how much sleep you have had the night before, IF you didn't get much sleep, 2 hours of driving and 1 hour of deep sleep, and do it like that.. or 4 hours of driving and an hours sleep or half an hours sleep...
I carry all weather bedding and shelter, because the distances can be so huge, and while the weather is generally DRY, although it can be COLD and VERY WINDY, the actual trips where protection from the rain storms that may carry on, on and off, all day or half a day etc., I am kitted up to protect myself from that, and take the shelter from the rain storms with me, so I can still get a good dry, lay down sleep, out of the weather...
So taking good care of your self requires adequate rest, adequate exercise, adequate liquids (water) and adequate nutrition.
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I think you can buff that out--it'll look like new.
/sarcasm
i have been so tired that i personally find some store parking lot just to take a little nap, even during the winter, i always made sure to pack blankets for that type of situation, and if i have to i will turn on my car every hour for roughly 20 minutes, to warm up the car again then it's back to sleep.
Advice to anyone driving around a bit on the "too tired" side - just don't.
Have a good rest...