Tips For Driving In Heavy Rain

Drive in the rainy weather condition. This is the most common situation faced by drivers. Driving in the rain especially hard rain could be very dangerous if we don't be careful. Many accidents can happen if we drive in this weather situation. Some human error could cause catastrophic accident and so does some mechanical problem. Make sure everything is in the best condition when you have to drive in rainy weather condition. Here are some basic tips for driving in rainy weather condition.

Do Not Speeding
Just drive smoothly and slow your vehicle down. The rain will make the road wet and slippery. These conditions will make you harder to stop immediately so you better be slowing down.

Keep Distance From Another Vehicle
Maintain and keep distance from vehicle in front of you is on of the most important thing to be done. Maintain at least 3 seconds distance from the vehicle in front of you.

Follow Car Tracks in front of You and Avoid Getting Too Close with Trucks
Follow the track of the vehicle in front of you car and always keep your distance from trucks or any other large vehicle cause their large tires can create massive water spray which will reduce your vision. Take very careful if you have to passing a trucks or other large vehicle and do it fast, smoothly and safely.

Stay In The Middle of Lanes
When it rains. Water tends to pool and gather in the lane's edge so make sure you stay in the middle of lanes.

Avoid Off Road
It is hard to guess the depth of the water puddle so make sure you stay on road and not having some silly off road adventure.

Avoid Using The Brake
You should slow your speed down and get your feet out of acceleration pedal instead of using your brake pedal.

Turn Your Light and Watch Others Light
Turn your headlights on. They will help you see the road and also help others see your car. Watch carefully for the brake light of the car in front of you.

Never Drive Beyond The Limits
Judge yourself about your visibility limit and never drive beyond your visibility limit. Avoid te road where you can not see the ground. Never drive in in the moving water because there's a risk your car will be swept off.

Stay Out If It Is Possible
Just pull out and stay off the road then park your car inside a building if you can. Avoid the rain if you can is the best prevention step.

Preventing Driving Sickness For your Kid

Driving sickness also called travel sickness but usually called motion sickness. This motion sickness is basically caused by conflict between eye and ear. When we are on the moving car, our ear detects if the car is moving while or eye just stay focused in the car and don’t feel the car movement. The ear and eye different detection will cause a conflict for our brain. This conflict will become a nausea result and make us feel sick. The children are usually feeling this sickness first and we better sped some time to cure it before the start vomiting. We can prevent this sickness to be happened by some tips :

Ask Our Children to Loot at The Far.

Ask them to focus at distant object outside the car. Encourage them to play some game which make them look at the distant (e.g : Let’s spy game). Bring some music they like to make them feel comfortable so they still can listen to the music while they look at outside the car. Do not let them do some activities which make them stay focused onside the car such as reading and play video games.

Avoid Rear and Backward Seat for the Children

If your car has some rear or backward seats then do not ask your children to seat on them. Facing rear or back could cause the children feel the sickness faster. You should avoid them.

Settle Our Children Stomach

Full stomach will also cause our children get the sickness faster. Just try to settle their stomach first before you start your journey. An empty stomach is not recommended for avoiding motion sickness. Give your children some easy to digest food and avoid for give them some greasy hard to digest food.

Smooth Driving

You have to try to drive smoothly. Less braking and swaying are better for you children and do not speeding. Try to have some smoothing suspensions on your car. Smoothing suspension also can prevent motion sickness for your children.

Stops and Rest Often for Having Fresh Air

Make some stop or rest planning on your trip and let your children for having some fresh air. Do not smoke inside the car and also do not bring some food with strong smelling. Smoke and strong smelling food will trigger motion sickness for your children.

Prepare and Be Responsive.

Watch your children carefully and listen to them. If they start to get pale or feeling dizzy then stop the car if you can. Stop and then rest for a while, wait for your children to feeling better.

Motion Sickness Drugs
For me personally the motion sickness drugs are the last option. Try to have some discussion with your doctor before you give it to your children.

Hope those tips will helps you and your family, especially your children. Have a nice trip...Cheers.

Long Distance Driving Preparation

I use this "Long Distance Driving" term for some trip with your lovely car for over than 300 kilometers or some trip which take more than a days to accomplish. This situation happen most for someone who enjoy for watching over beautiful nature scene while driving. Long distance driving can be very full of risk if you don't prepare it well. Okay here they are some basic things to prepare before you go for long distance driving :

Check the Condition of Your Car
Do some routine check for your engine and brake. Also don’t be hesitant to check other things such as tires, windshield and lamp. If you think there’s something wrong with your car and you can’t handle it, just bring your car to the mechanic. Do some check of the engine oil, brake fluid and water radiator. If you think your car is too dirty, maybe you need to wash it too. For me personally, I don't want to look so dirty in my trip.

Make List for Important Things to Bring
Make sure you have carried some basic emergency things in your car before you start your Long Distance Driving such as First Aid Kit, Tool Set, and Communication Tool. It will be safer for you to bring some crucial spare part and fuel for your car. You might consider for bringing some food and drinking just in case you feel thirsty or hungry. Just Remember if anything can happen in Long Distance Driving. So you better be prepared well. Just bring whatever you might need as long as your car doesn’t carry excess weight.

Plan Your Trip Route Well
Prepare your map for your Long Distance Driving. Look at your map and try to make some route to your destination. Prepare more than one route because things don’t exactly run as we planned. After you decide two or more of your trip route, don’t forget to plan where you want to rest and refueling. It will be better if you have a GPS device which can help you the information about rest area, food court and fuel depot. If you do have a GPS device, just try to track your trip and don't forget to mark some important place. It can be very useful in the future.

Money, Documents and Licenses
Just don’t forget to bring some money. You don’t want to stuck in the middle of nowhere without money, do you? Also don’t forget to bring your important license and document such as driving license, vehicle license and especially your ID Card. It would be better if you used to prepare a note to write some little thing which usually miss.

If you think there still some other things useful, you can add it to the list. Thins useful things can be some personal medicine, some children equipments or anything else that can be very useful in your trip. For a Very Long Distance Driving, It would be better if you bring a person who can replace you to drive especially if you feel tired or sleepy. Last but not least...Always drive safe, Obey the traffic sign, Be responsible...and Don’t Speeding. Have a Nice Long Distance Driving...Cheers.

Things To Do For Your First Car

Almost everybody loves car. Everybody wants to have a car. In fact almost everybody save their income just for buying their first car. Some other alternative is by having car loan or car credit. Finally! After some hard working and saving money for some month, you can buy your first car. This is the best moment everybody waiting for, to buy and proudly driving their new car. So, what should you do next? What should you do with your new car? What should you do before start to drive your car? Before you drive your newly first car, there are a few things to be notice especially for a car owner newbie - from some automotive aspect to financial insurance aspect. You have to learn it, know it and keep in your mind while you drive.

First thing to do when you have a new car is get insurance for your car.

This is the most basic and lawful thing to do for car owner. In most country, there are several consequences if you can’t afford an insurance policy for your car such as driving license suspension and fines. In some cases it may cause jail for you. You don’t want to let your car alone in the garage while you spend your time in jail, don’t you?

Always check you safety device in your new car.

Spend a few minutes to check your new car safety device before you do anything else. First and always, check you car brake system then check another safety devices such as seat belts and airbags. If you feel there’s something wrong about your car safety devices, then you should bring it to auto repair to fix them.

Safety always comes First.

Keep in your mind that your safety while driving is always above everything. Do not push your accelerate pedal level to the floor. If you drive recklessly, you’re not only put yourself in danger but you also put everyone else in danger. I you really want to enjoy your new car then you have to start driving safely.

Know your limits and capabilities.

Always try to deeply understand and know you limit or capabilities. For example if have some problems with your car bug you’re not a mechanic then you must not try to fix your car by yourself. Just put your car in the hand of mechanic and let him/her run the diagnostic of your car.

Do not underestimate any problem you have with your car.

If you feel there’s something wrong with your car then you have to fix it immediately. A minor problem can turn into a very big problem in you don’t fix it immediately. Your car is a complicated engineering system with every part of the system has their function. If one simple part fail, the car may not run well and this could cause you an accident.

Be discipline and responsible for yourself.

Having your own car not only give you a freedom to drive wherever you like but also give you a huge responsibility both for you and others around you.

That’s it…a simple guide for first timer car owner. Hope this will bring you a benefit. Have a nice and safety driving…Cheers!!

Fuel Saving Tips

The increase of oil price all over the world has forced us to be more efficient in oil use especially for our car. In fact the oil price is still rising until today. There are few things we can do regarded oil fuel efficiency such as :

Just stop use your vehicle and start to walk or ride a bike for your transportation. Maybe you will say it is nuts to stop driving but this maybe one of the best solution. With walking on foot or take a bike for transportation, you have done two good things both for earth environment and also your health.

Replace your car with Hybrid Car because this kind of car will need less fuel than your general car. Again maybe this is nuts cause we all know if Hybrid Car is expensive today. Well maybe few years later this Hybrid Car will cost less money, who knows…

Use mass transportation. Well this maybe better solution than the first two. By taking mass transportation such as busses or trains we can save some our money we use for oil fuel. But off course not everyone likes to go with busses or trains.


Changing your driving behaviors is the most reasonable option Change you driving behaviors is the easiest way for saving some fuel with your car. It also can be done right now and you will surprise with the result. This is also the cheapest way to do without any necessary buy anything new and really stop wasting your money.

Driving Behaviors which give us benefit for saving fuel are :

1. Avoid Unnecessary Idle of your car. Simple and yet so useful, just don’t turn your car on when you don’t need it. Turn your car off while you do anything else and you will save some fuel.
2. Don’t Carry Excess Weight. The heavier the car will cost you more fuel to carry. Just bring the most important thing you will need or your car and leave unused things at home.
3. Drive Smoothly, Slowly and Carefully. Do not speeding, just drive your car normally and you can save a lot of fuel. Speeding will also make you do some heavy braking; this will increase your fuel consumption.
4. Use The Proper Gear. Use low gear only when you start drive then uses the higher gear when you drive on constant speed. Do not use low gear for high speed because you will waste your fuel.
5. Maintenance Your Car Regularly. Some car manufacturer will recommend car maintenance for certain period. Just follow the instruction so your car will be maintained well. As we all know that well maintained car will also have high efficiency to operate and surely your fuel consumption will also efficient.
6. Keep Your Tires Properly Inflated. This simple thing will be great for fuel efficiency and also increase your safety driving. Uninfalted tires will make your car to have more drag friction and this will use more fuel for your car to move.
7. Use The Cruise Control. Use this thing can greatly save your fuel usage. Use this option when you drive on flat and steady road. Skip this option if you drive on the hilly area.

Well that is some basic knowledge for saving your fuel usage. If you think a little bit more, by doing all those things you will also give some contribution for saving our beloved planet. Have a nice try….Cheers

Things to Do When You Have a Car Accident

I'm really sure if nobody want to have a car accident. When you do have a car accident, what do you think you can do??

Well maybe these things below are the most basic tips (in case) you really had a car accident.

1. Always prepare for the worst. Make sure you have carried your emergency kit and first aid on your car as well as some notes or pocket camera for documentation of your accident.
2. Make sure your communication tool such as cellphone work well when you start to drive. Better be prepared for the worst such as carry some emergency flares or whistler.
3. Prepare some emergency phone number such as hospital,If you do have an accident, you better be stoped and don't keep drive your car because it can be considered as hit and run.
4. After you hit someone's car or being hit by someone's car, if you still awake anf your car still can move then you should move your car into safe area before you do anything else.
5. Move another people who get involved in accident to safe area and check if any of them getting injured.
6. Use you emergency tool and first aid kit to help other then use your communication tool to call for help.
7. Call the authorities such as police department and always tell them the truth about the accident. Just follow the procedure and instuction given by the police officer and make sure to write down the police officer's name.
8. Do not agree to pay for damages or sign any paper except a traffic ticket until you check with your insurance company or lawyer.
9. Take some documentary if you can do that. Take some picture of the accident, cars damage, place of accident and any other picture that you can use to claim your car insurance. Keep watching the traffict while you take some picture for documentary.
10. Gather as many information as possible related with name, address, phone number, insurance company, policy number, driver license number and license plate number for the driver and the owner of each vehicle. Try to get some witness information if there's any.
11. Call your insurance company immediately after the accident and don't forget to send them a written notice as soon as possible. The notice should include the time, place and circumstances of the accident.
12. If you or your family get hurt, Call an attorney who is experienced in accident cases . Ask them all the question related to the car accident.

That's it...

Well maybe those things above are not enough but still those are the most important things to do when you have a car accident. The key is Always be Prepared for the Worst!

Sometimes preventive action is the best way to avoid accident. We better be careful when we drive...Cheers

SAFETY DRIVING

Mobile phone use while driving is common but controversial. Using a cellular telephone while operating a motor vehicle has been shown to increase the risk of accident. Because of this, many governments have made use a cell phone while driving illegal. A 1997 Canadian study and a 2005 Australian study both estimated the risk of a collision when using a cellular telephone was four times higher than the risk when a cellular telephone was not being used. 699 and 456 drivers, respectively, who owned phones, were involved in crashes, and volunteered for the studies were examined. By collecting volunteers' cell phone records, scientists were able to determine who placed telephone calls shortly before the time of crash, and through case-crossover analysis (a technique often used in medical studies of heart-attacks and air pollution) of cell phone habits, calculated the increase in risk. Both studies found that hands-free devices were not considerably safer.

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A more traditional study method was used by the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) for their 2003 study. Questionnaires were sent to 175,000 drivers and analysis was done on the 36,078 who responded. The questionnaire asked about driving habits, risk exposure, collisions over the past 24 months, socio-demographic information, and cell phone use. Questionnaires were supported with data from cell phone companies and police crash records. The study found that the overall relative risk (RR) of having an accident for cell phone users when compared to non-cell phone users averaged 1.38 across all groups. When adjusted for kilometers driven per year and other crash risk exposures, RR was 1.11 for men and 1.21 for women. They also found that increased cell phone use correlated with an increase in RR.

CAR ACCIDENT

Car accident, sometimes called a car crash or car wreck, is an incident in which an automobile collides with anything that causes damage to the automobile, including other automobiles, telephone poles, buildings or trees, or in which the driver loses control of the vehicle and damages it in some other way, such as driving into a ditch or rolling over. Sometimes a car accident may also refer to an automobile striking a human or animal. Car crashes — also called road traffic accidents (RTAs), fender benders, traffic collisions, auto accidents, road accidents, personal injury collisions, motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), — kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times this number (WHO, 2004).

Many countries require the reporting and collection of road traffic accident statistics. Although the type of information collected differs between jurisdiction, this enables a figure to be produced for personal injuries and deaths to be produced, and correlated against a range of circumstances. It is then possible to attempt to group these circumstances in order to infer a cause, or causes for sets of accidents.

It has long been recognized that there may be a combination of factors, such as road conditions, weather environment, driver actions, sleepy driver or pedestrian actions, that contribute to an accident or road death. Indonesia is one of some developing country with high car crash incident. Mostly the car crash in Indonesia is caused by reckless driver or safety ignorant.

SAFETY DRIVING

Automobile safety or Motorcycle Safety is the avoidance of automobile accidents or the minimization of harmful effects of accidents, in particular as pertaining to human life and health. Numerous safety features have been built into cars for years, some for the safety of car's occupants only, some for the safety of others. Major factors in accidents include driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs; inattentive driving; crash compatibility between vehicles; driving while fatigued or unconscious; encounters with road hazards such as snow, potholes, and crossing animals; or reckless driving.

Motorcycles have a higher rate of fatal accidents than automobiles. Furthermore for motorcycles the accident rates have increased significantly since the end of the 1990s, while the rates have dropped for passenger cars. The two major causes of motorcycle accidents in the United States are: motorists pulling out or turning in front of motorcyclists and violating their rights-of-way and motorcyclists running wide through turns.