I've been known to fly a BMW at times

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but I always flew low enough to stay in contact with the pavement.

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What’s Happening In Your Brain During ‘Microsleep’
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RayThom wrote:What’s Happening In Your Brain During ‘Microsleep’
I Imagine his sleep was quite micro that night.
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Car at speed + ramp = Joie Chitwood Thrill Show (Amateur Category)

All kidding aside, though, that Is some serious air that he got there.
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I like the "Police say he fell asleep briefly at the wheel" line.

I'm guessing it was a pretty brief sleep with a fairly sudden awakening.

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Suddenly awake, yes. Notice when he hit the brakes. About halfway between launch and impact. Unfortunately, they aren't effective at that altitude.
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Too bad he didn't have air brakes.

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Wow. high enuff that the roof of the car was above the tunnel opening. I recently was rear-ended at a stop sign in my new Corolla with less than 3000 miles. It was drivable--all the lights still worked, etc. BUT the trunk was jammed partly open. I noticed it was sucking fumes into the passenger compartment. That was enuff to get me a rental immediately from the insurance company. They ended up replacing all the body parts behind the rear doors.

I was talking to an engineer about that and car design in general. He said "it is all crumple zone. You are much more likely to walk away from any accident, and less likely to drive away." The driver in the instance at the head of this thread did not stop suddenly, as he would have if he hit the outside of the tunnel head-on. That probably had a big part in the destruction of the car and the driver's lack of fatal injury.

I have had instances of seeing obstacles in the middle of the pavement on the Kansas Turnpike at 3am that were not there, arriving at a toll booth at Chesapeake bay after working 18 hours straight (I should have tuned off before the tollbooth)and not remembering anything about how I drove the last 10 miles, and an instance of driving thru a redlight at a major intersection at 65mph after driving 500 miles with no break. I saw the redlight and the traffic crossing in front of me and my brain did not manage to get any signal that I should do anything but keep going straight ahead. Just good reactions by other drivers meant there was only the noise of horns and no metal banging. Sleep is a wonderful thing when you get it at the right time and place.

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