What should I do if I run out of battery on my way home during the Spring Festival? The essential “charging station” is ready!

The journey home during Spring Festival travel is long, and it is easy for people to "run out of battery" during long-distance driving. But many new drivers and even experienced drivers think that they can handle it by just carrying it. As the saying goes, "March is the month of winter when you can't wake up." Many drivers suppressed their drowsiness along the way and challenged their physical limits.

Shumi reminds all drivers that during driving, they should arrange rest time reasonably and ensure adequate sleep. Continuous driving should not exceed 4 hours, and the parking rest time should not be less than 20 minutes. If you feel sleepy or in poor condition, you must choose a service area to park. When driving on a highway section, be sure to follow the principle of "enter every third service area" and go in to take a good rest when passing by the third service area.

What? Playing on your phone in the service area to relieve fatigue? Corning is definitely not encouraged, but everyone is welcome to look at the following posters in the service area. Recently, the Guangdong Traffic Police and the caring enterprise Chehangyi have produced a batch of Spring Festival travel posters, signs, safety slogans, etc., which have been put up on the walls of major service areas across the province! On your way home, when you stop at the service area, remember to pay attention to the warm reminder~

The Guangdong Traffic Police and the caring enterprise Chehangyi produced a batch of Spring Festival travel posters, Taiwanese signs, safety slogans, etc. It has been put up in all major service areas across the province!

It is said that "drowsy driving is more dangerous than a tiger".

What are the dangers of tired driving?

How should we prevent it?

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Hazards of Fatigue Driving

When drivers are tired, their judgment ability decreases, their reactions are slow, and their operating errors increase;

Drivers When the driver is slightly fatigued, the gear shifting will be delayed and inaccurate;

When the driver is moderately fatigued, the operation movements will be sluggish, and sometimes the driver will even forget to operate;

The driver will be in a state of moderate fatigue. When you are severely fatigued, you will often operate subconsciously or fall asleep for a short period of time. In severe cases, you will lose the ability to control the vehicle.

When drivers are tired, they may have blurred vision, back pain, stiff movements, swollen hands and feet, or lack of concentration, slow reaction, poor thinking, confusion, anxiety, impatience, etc.

Drowsy driving is so scary

How should we prevent it?

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Methods to relieve fatigue while driving

If you are on the highway, it is best to go to the nearest service area to rest in 1 and a half to 2 hours for a while; if the driver has not had a good rest or feels a little tired, do not drive onto the highway.

Get enough sleep the day before driving. When driving, you can occasionally open the windows for ventilation to keep yourself awake and divert your attention. You can carry chewing gum with you in the car. Chewing it can keep your face moving. When you feel tired and cannot park your car temporarily, you can listen to some songs and sing along with the music to keep yourself awake.

Listen to the vehicle's active safety reminder intervention. Currently, many models are equipped with driving fatigue reminder systems. When the system senses that the owner has not performed merging, acceleration and deceleration operations for a long time, or the driving time is too long, the instrument will A "coffee cup" or other warning appears. When the car owner notices the warning, he needs to stop and take a rest to avoid unnecessary accidents.

In addition, there are more tips to relieve fatigue driving↓

Avoid high-risk driving times. The early morning and 3 to 4 pm are the times when the human body is most likely to become sleepy. If a car accident occurs due to dozing off or losing concentration, it is best to avoid driving during this period.

Adjust your visual center. Don’t keep staring at the center line of the road. When driving at high speed, you must keep a safe distance from the car in front.

Let your body move during the parking interval. You can get off the car and let your body move. If it is not convenient to get off the car, you can seize the opportunity to twist your neck, shake your shoulders, and do some things in the car. Fighting movements are more conducive to boosting the spirit.

Eat more carrots and cabbage. Vitamins are real sobering agents. They can dispose of the metabolites accumulated when people are tired as quickly as possible. For example, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, potatoes, apples, kelp, soybeans, etc. are all foods that prevent fatigue and can help overcome fatigue. You should eat more, and at the same time, remember to eat less greasy meat.

Use light to drive away drowsiness. Light can help regulate the biological clock, inhibit the body's secretion of melatonin, and reduce drowsiness.

Therefore, if you are driving at night, you might as well stop the car and go to a small shop or supermarket on the roadside to buy something, and use the light there to drive away drowsiness.

Reduce the temperature inside the car. If the car is too warm and comfortable, it will increase drowsiness. You can use the air conditioner in the car to lower the temperature. If it is night, you can open the windows for a while to blow in the cold air.

Drink a cup of coffee half an hour before driving to stimulate the brain, keep you awake, and cheer up. However, it takes 15 to 30 minutes to take effect after drinking. Therefore, you can drink a cup as appropriate before driving half an hour. Coffee or green tea.

Wash your face with cold water. Before driving, you can wash your face with cold water to stimulate the sympathetic nerves and keep your mind clear.

The aroma of rosemary, mint, and eucalyptus can refresh your mind. You may wish to put a few drops of these plant essential oils in the car before driving to help keep your mind clear while driving.

In order to allow citizens to "recharge" in time on their way home, the Guangdong Traffic Police has set up convenience service points throughout the province to provide everyone with rest, food, medicine and other services.

Foshan: Cartoon version of traffic police provides free refueling for "returning motorcycle riders"

On January 10, the Guangdong *** Youth League and Sinopec opened a gas station in Longshan, Shunde District, Foshan City The service area held a Spring Festival travel-themed public welfare activity called "Love Station, Return Home Full of Love". Foshan Traffic Police also sent a number of police officers to set up service points at the scene, and *** also provided free fuel for 11,000 "returning motorcycle riders".

At the event site, the traffic police provided considerate services such as travel consultation, mobile phone charging, order maintenance, and convenient assistance to the waves of motorcycles who came to refuel on the Spring Festival transportation road. They distributed promotional materials and printed A small gift with a warning. Practical traffic safety promotional materials such as vehicle-mounted garbage bags, roadblock warning lights, vehicle body reflective stickers, and baby warmers jointly customized by Guangdong Traffic Police and Chexingyi were also distributed to the public free of charge on site, providing "one-stop" warmth and safety for people returning home. hint.

The cute cartoon versions of Shu and the policewoman mingled cordially with everyone at the scene.

In response to the situation where some motorcycle drivers did not wear helmets or the safety performance of the helmets did not meet the requirements, the traffic police, like previous years, customized 100 helmets and gave them to drivers who came to refuel on site, and provided They are worn and buckled to provide citizens with safety and security on their way home.

Qingyuan: Launched 9 high-speed Spring Festival travel service points and 21 local Spring Festival travel service points

Qingyuan traffic police will provide the masses with warmth such as rest, food, drinking water and emergency medicine at convenient service points In addition, the traffic police also prepared relevant traffic safety leaflets to popularize traffic safety knowledge. The setting up of convenience points will bring heart-warming services to citizens, effectively enhance the traffic safety and law-abiding awareness of drivers and passengers, and create a safe and harmonious Spring Festival road traffic environment for the 2020 Spring Festival.

Staff distribute traffic safety slips

Convenience service points provide food to the masses

Dongguan: "Safe Spring Festival" volunteer service is carried out in the 5th Expressway Service Area Publicity activities

On the morning of January 10, Dongguan Traffic Police carried out a "Safe Spring Festival" voluntary service publicity activity in five high-speed service areas with dense traffic and traffic. During the activity, Dongguan Traffic Police carried out various promotional activities at publicity service points Convenience services, publicity of traffic safety knowledge, etc., provide heart-warming services to passing drivers and passengers, reminding them to drive safely and travel safely on their way back home, so that passengers can feel the warmth of Dongguan.

During the Spring Festival, all provincial and municipal duty service stations in Dongguan have set up "Dongguan Public Security Spring Festival Love Stations" to provide citizens returning home with rest on the way, hot water ginger tea, emergency medicine, mobile phone charging, and self-service Handling illegal services and other services.

The early morning and afternoon are the times when you are most likely to feel sleepy.

Dali Shumao reminds drivers that they must pay attention to maintaining a regular schedule.

< p>Make sure you get enough sleep.

If you need to drive long distances,

try to find relatives and friends who are qualified to drive and take turns driving.

Avoid driving alone for a long time and making you sleepy.

Editor: Xiao Lu

Reviewer: Futang, Ariel

Some sources of material: Chehangyi, Qingyuan Traffic Police, Dongguan Traffic Police, Dongguan Sunshine Network< /p>

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