Safe Driving Tips during Pregnancy
Driving while pregnant is fine, as long as your pregnancy is not problematic. Below are tips on safe driving during pregnancy:
The first trimester:
- Usually you have morning sickness. During the condition of the body is not fit, because these disorders nausea and vomiting, you better not drive by yourself.
- The contents of the stomach before going. An empty stomach can trigger nausea.
- Bring water and snacks for the “friends” trip.
- If there is no food, you can suck candy ginger or lemon-flavored candy to relieve nausea.
- Provide plastic bags to anticipate if you vomit.
- If you drive by yourself suddenly want to vomit, dizziness, or other complaint, immediately set aside in a safe vehicle. If the condition is severe, call your husband or friend to help you.
Second trimester
If you do a long trip then:
- Perform a complete inspection of the health condition of the womb and yourself
- Stop several times about 10-15 minutes, especially if the spine and the back of the body start aching.
- Come down from the car, a short walk and do stretching and other things that can make you relax.
Third trimester
- In order not sore, prop your hips with a pillow
- If sitting in the front seat, slide seat toward the back so your feet spacious.
- Avoid the stress of traffic jams by listening to the radio or your favorite song.
Tips Safe Driving at Night
At night, the ability to catch the eye spacing, color, and viewing angle is much reduced. In addition, increasing age, the less the ability to use his eyes. Another problem that hit the night riders were exhausted. Here’s miraculous night driving tips:
1. Preparation
Prepare vehicle for night travel. Besides ascertained headlights and rear lights turn on with normal and clean. The entire outside and inside the glass must also be clean.
2. Turn on high beam
If you doubt there is “something” in front, turn on high beam. Distant lights help you see clearly and make other motorists know that there are vehicles that you drive.
3. Slow down and keep your distance
Reduce speed and add distance to the car in front or behind. At night is more difficult to measure the distance of other cars.
4. Stop in a safe place
Make sure you can stop in the area illuminated by the headlights of your own. If not, you will not be time to put the brakes if something had suddenly appeared.
5. Switch the view to the left side
If the vehicle from the front of the dazzling lights, do not look forward but look to the left side of the road to guide the direction. This is to avoid the light blinded you.
Car Driving on the Uphill Road
Here’s a trick or how to drive a car on the uphill road:
If it requires you to stop on the uphill road when driving, then we can stop using a variety of ways.
There are 3 (three) technique or a way to stop the ramp is often used, namely: Stop with the hand brake, with the foot brake, with half clutch / combination between the gas and clutch.
Stop with Hand Brakes: This technique is a safe way if it stops on a high hill and in a long time.
The trick: Hit the Brake Pedal Foot and Pedal Clutch to stop the car, then secure the car by pulling / lifting hand brake lever and move the gear into neutral gear. If you will walk again, move the gear to gear 1 (one), press the gas pedal, clutch out until you feel the car shaking slightly, and drop / lower the hand brake slowly, if it has been helped by stepping on the gas goes deeper. The car will drive slowly without the slightest retreat. If the car backed up, meaning less clutch pedal raised / off and stepped on the gas pedal less.
Stop with Foot Brake: The trick is to stop the car briefly, namely, stepped on the clutch pedal and foot brake pedal to stop the car. Furthermore, if you want to go back: loose or lift the clutch pedal slightly until the car was vibrating a bit (which indicates power supplied to the teeth). Then release the foot brake slowly and after walking a bit, help with the gas. Good to climb high enough and stopped briefly.
Stop with the Combination Gas and Clutch: namely, if the situation requires us to stop the road in a short amount of time and the ramp is not high enough. The trick: stop the vehicle with tread the clutch and hold the gas pedal until the car stops. If you want to resume the journey, off or lift the clutch pedal slowly, then help with tread the gas pedal.