The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Stuck in a traffic jam? That way you will not be knocked to the end - Walla! vehicle

2022-04-20T13:49:52.147Z


Traffic jams in the north, traffic jams in the south, traffic jams in Jerusalem - every road that leads to a tourist site turned into a huge block of crowded vehicles for each other this holiday


Stuck in a traffic jam?

This way you will not be knocked to the end

The hundreds of thousands of hikers who crowd the parks and recreation sites in nature make driving there and back a nightmare.

But remember, what you're seeing now is just the teaser for what's still to come

Keenan Cohen

20/04/2022

Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 15:12 Updated: 16:37

  • Share on Facebook

  • Share on WhatsApp

  • Share on Twitter

  • Share on Email

  • Share on general

  • Comments

    Comments

We know what your first thought was in the crazy traffic jam you were in this week - "Didn't they say that all the people went abroad on Passover, where did all this come from me?" Every day in traffic jams, what's some more traffic jams



? , The kids in the back and even the other drivers are joining a very problematic cocktail for your driving. The more problematic part - you may not even be aware of it



.

More on Walla!

In 2021 we stood in traffic jams for a long time.

In 2022 we will probably stand much more

To the full article

Traffic jams, traffic jams everywhere (Photo: Noam Moskowitz)

1. Slowly it is not safe

Contrary to what you have been told, slow travel does not necessarily prevent or reduce the amount of accidents.

It certainly reduces the intensity of the collision, the level of damage and the severity of the injuries, but in our case the problem is due to the monotonous and slow driving.

This happens even at the level of the psychological mechanisms that take place in our brains, the ones that have a hard time reconciling the dissonance of getting from A to B in a certain period of time, but now that period of time is becoming double or even triple.



It is the slow driving that causes us not to keep enough distance from the vehicle in front, the one that lowers the level of concentration and alertness due to the slow pace.

Therefore, precisely in this type of driving, it is even more important to maintain a distance in accordance with the driving conditions, to increase it if you are simultaneously acting as a mediator in the peace talks between the children in the back or explaining to someone on the phone how to get to Ein Jihri.

Another characteristic of driving at these traffic loads is the "accordion" effect where the traffic flows at a relatively fast pace at times and at once reach a surprising traffic congestion.

More on Walla!

Keeping distance: Forget everything you were taught

To the full article

What to do?

First of all look up as far forward as possible as you travel faster to notice the traffic load early.

Then, turn on the distress lights to signal the situation to those behind us.

And finally, try to stop with enough "safety margin" between us and the vehicle in front of us in case we have to slip aside a habit that comes behind us quickly and not enough to brake, for this reason we always look in the mirrors during deceleration to be aware of traffic around us.



So it's true that in case you are in a traffic jam you can not travel faster, but that does not mean that you can afford to be less aware of the traffic situation and what is happening around you.



Which brings us to the next tip.

2. was right

Leaving on the understanding that we are expected to stand in traffic jams for hours begins long before we get in the car.

This means sleeping properly the night before setting off, and if the situation is back from camping where at first the accommodation conditions are not exactly at home standard - take this into account and add another hour or two of sleep.



If possible, arrange in advance with your spouse that if you feel less fit to drive, you can make a change along the way.

And remember, this moment when you

feel

tired, is already after the point you had to change, this is the stage where the body screams that it is on the edge.



And this preparation is also relevant for children, not to be replaced by driving, but at the level of explanation before setting out that this is going to be a longer journey than usual and you should take this into account and get suitable employment.

Monotonous driving is no less bad than distraction (Photo: Reuven Castro)

3. What does the WAZE say?

The widespread use and almost complete dependence of some people on the collaborative navigation app can be very problematic.

We have seen this already in the rapid return of the economy to a full-scale routine at the exit from the previous corona waves - as more and more users have learned that the sentence about to whom the prophecy was given also holds true in the case of this useful software.



This also happens in situations of extreme holiday traffic congestion, where in order to achieve the best arrival time, the software will also send you through secondary axes, only to find that you are trying to navigate within residential neighborhoods or unfamiliar alleys.

Except in cases of extreme catastrophe, the time you will save in the navigation series in a built-up area will be a few minutes, think in advance if it is worth the chance for a swan to save the time.



In general it is advisable to take a look at the chosen route to make sure that you are more or less familiar with the road and not surprised or looking every time whether this is the right exit.

4. Take air

Yes, someone will drive on the edge, yes, someone will push in front of you, park crooked, block, cut you, honk at you, get stuck in the middle of the intersection because he came in when he was not available, run in the left lane, keep no distance from you, throw a snack wrapper out of the car.

No, there will be no policeman there at that moment and you are neither the teacher, nor the educator nor his parents - take a breath, if your goal in this vacation is to find a good brawl, there are better ways to find one.

If it is not - take air - it is not worth it, it is not worth messing with it even in the head, it is not worth the example for children, it is probably not worth falling into a situation that you are not sure you will control from start to finish.



And you, yes you who do the things that annoy everyone - fulfilled that you act like the mother of a football referee, will it really hurt her if at least his lust before crossing a lane?

Peeing is not life threatening, stopping in an inappropriate place yes (Photo: Reuven Castro)

5. Death lurks on the margins

If you decide to stop and change, wait for friends traveling with you, let the child pee, re-type the destination in the navigation system, pull a bottle of water from the trunk in the trunk, even if you stopped to check that everything is fine and you do not have a puncture - you do not do it in the margins - you Continue until you find a safe place to stand or at least to an emergency bay that allows you to get as far away from the road as possible.



Stopping on the road, even for a short time, is very dangerous and can end in a fatal car accident.

Even in the extreme case of a malfunction that does not allow further travel, immediately after calling the police and reporting your location, get everyone out of the car and stand beyond the safety fence and anywhere away from the vehicle.

  • vehicle

  • Car News

Tags

  • Traffic jams

  • traffic jams

  • Passover

Source: walla

All tech articles on 2022-04-20

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.