Does eating a big meal affect driving?

freshpopcorn

Has anybody here experienced their driving being effected because they ate a large meal?

I haven't heard of this happening in the past but a TD thinks eating a large meal will affect your driving.

me_irl

Thread here on this eejit

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057741875

Armchair Andy

If you steer with your knees while eating, then no.

corner of hells

Armchair Andy wrote: »

If you steer with your knees while eating, then no.

Having a soup for a starter can be difficult too.

frag420

Another Kerry Konspiracy!!

Beyondgone

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Has anybody here experienced their driving being effected because they ate a large meal?

I haven't heard of this happening in the past but a TD thinks eating a large meal will affect your driving.

Weight reduction Bro. Every kilo matters.

me_irl

Beyondgone wrote: »

Weight reduction Bro. Every kilo matters.

Drive with the windows closed too. No matter how hot it is. Reduces wind resistance.

Gatling

Does oral sex count as a meal ?

Armchair Andy

Beyondgone wrote:

Weight reduction Bro. Every kilo matters.

Not when the car is counter weighted with a fat passenger too.
Usually ends up in a fight over the roast potatoes though.

sentient_6

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Has anybody here experienced their driving being effected because they ate a large meal?

I haven't heard of this happening in the past but a TD thinks eating a large meal will affect your driving.

Well if a TD thinks so then it must be true!

freshpopcorn

me_irl wrote: »

Thread here on this eejit

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057741875

That thread didn't have a poll to show After Hours true feelings on the subject.

elperello

Yes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074806/How-heavy-lunch-menace-motorists-A-big-meal-makes-harder-concentrate-road.html

For Forks Sake

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Has anybody here experienced their driving being effected because they ate a large meal?

I haven't heard of this happening in the past but a TD thinks eating a large meal will affect your driving.

Not unless you're planning on drowning the meal in whiskey.

Jobs OXO

Gatling wrote: »

Does oral sex count as a meal ?

Course it does. Nothing beats have the sex stick eatin' off ya !

doolox

The TD from Kerry is trying to ridicule the political slant against drinking and driving but is failing badly. Unless I had two big steaks, 5 or 6 big spuds and a half a plate of Turnips carrots etc....ie a good feed, I'd be well able to drive and would be in no way sleepy. In fact the opposite could happen, my daughter watches her figure and is in the habit of skipping meals and minimising food intake which wrecks her concentration and has led to accidents on two occasions. She knows better now and always has a snack before driving.

The big problem with drinking and driving is the loss of judgement which comes after about two pints...after that anyone would think they are invincible and the next world champion when the cold fact is that most are only average drivers with average abilities.

The big trouble comes if, and when you meet another drink driver inexpereinced driver, angry driver, depressed driver etc......when you meet the worst case in the worst case weather driving the worst case car.... then the book will be thrown at you for being even 1 mg above the limit even if the other guy is well over the speed limit in a 20 yr old badly maintained wreck with bald tires no lights and a provisional licence for 2 weeks...so long as he is sober. You lose all rights to the road after going over the limit.

longshanks

The truly depressing thing is that the chronically ridiculous buffoon making these comments will more than likely be voted back in again at the next election.

elperello

longshanks wrote: »

The truly depressing thing is that the chronically ridiculous buffoon making these comments will more than likely be voted back in again at the next election.

Yes democracy should only allow approved candidates.

For Forks Sake

longshanks wrote: »

The truly depressing thing is that the chronically ridiculous buffoon making these comments will more than likely be voted back in again at the next election.

They'll probably figure out a way of getting a third one of them elected.

elperello

Healy Rae could be on to something.

https://www.arrivealive.co.za/Healthy-Eating-Driver-Fitness-and-Safer-Driving

Mena Mitty

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Has anybody here experienced their driving being effected because they ate a large meal?

I haven't heard of this happening in the past but a TD thinks eating a large meal will affect your driving.

Kids fighting in the backseat can distract and affect your concentration when driving. Personally I find the radio on 'distracting' There are people who report a sizeable swelling to the abdomen after eating, a discomfort sotospeak, so I'd say it could be a contributing factor in taking your eye off the road.

Definitley smoking while driving should be looked at, I've had a couple of near misses myself many years ago when I smoked rooting around on the floor under my feet for a lighter that had fallen down.

I think it's all common sense stuff but we all just get into the car and forget the little things that could cause an accident.

Beta Ray Bill

The Healy Rae's are idiots.
Great politicians mind you, their constitutes love them, but the rest of the country hates them.

No a big meal does not impair your ability to drive.
The Healy Rae's are attempting to defend the tourism businesses (Their own business, they own loads of Bars) in Kerry, that's all that's happening here.

It's all part of the plan!

Omackeral

I'd say every Drive-Thru in the country is sh*tting themselves over this gombeen's ramblings.

AnneFrank

Omackeral wrote: »

I'd say every Drive-Thru in the country is sh*tting themselves over this gombeen's ramblings.

He earns good money for a gombeen.
If you look beyond his colourful language, the man has a point,
nothing to do with food, just the fact that there is bigger issues than having 2 pints, ie speed mainly, phones and putting make up on ect

ahnowbrowncow

So he's comparing eating a large meal and then driving to consuming a small amount of alcohol in order to defend driving after consuming alcohol.

He then goes on to say he won't eat a big meal before driving due to the effect it would have on his driving which totally contradicts his point.

Intelligent guy.

ScumLord

He didn't even get around to the meat sweats, the steering wheel would be like trying to wrestle a pike out of the water and you'd be sliding around on the seat like aunty Nora at a Daniel O'Donnell concert.

Widdershins

Mena Mitty wrote: »

Kids fighting in the backseat can distract and affect your concentration when driving. Personally I find the radio on 'distracting' There are people who report a sizeable swelling to the abdomen after eating, a discomfort sotospeak, so I'd say it could be a contributing factor in taking your eye off the road.

Definitley smoking while driving should be looked at, I've had a couple of near misses myself many years ago when I smoked rooting around on the floor under my feet for a lighter that had fallen down.

I think it's all common sense stuff but we all just get into the car and forget the little things that could cause an accident.

My friend calls it a food baby (ugh). It seems like some people do get drowsy after eating, others do not. Certain foods like turkey are a bit soporific, and make people sleepy. People drive while tired all the time. The only time I was so tired I felt I was a danger was when I was 19, and I was pushed into it, and someone else crashed into me. If I'd been more alert I would have noticed they were coming too fast on the narrow road and pulled off the road quicker. They were going so fast their car kept going for about a hundred yards..almost on its side, two wheels on the hedge.
There was a very sad case not too far from my homeplace a few years ago, where a young man fell asleep at the wheel only five minutes away from his own home in the early hours of the morning.

I sometimes smoke one cigarette while driving (alone, on long journeys or if very stressed. Nicotine helps people to focus so in itself might help distracted drivers and I know someone who smokes because she gets road rage otherwise!)
If I don't want to smoke it when I set out, I have the cigarette and lighter in a hollow on the dashboard under the radio so I don't need to take my eyes off the road to look for them. My left hand reaches and it takes a few seconds in total. Less than pressing the window switch or changing the radio station.
I wouldn't root around for them, I'd just wait until I could pull over safely if necessary.
I know someone who overturned her car while she rummaged in her handbag on the passenger seat.

That politician doesn't care about it as a road safety issue in itself, he's just trying to belittle the danger of drink driving.

demanufactured

He's a gobshyte.
Does he serve food in his pub?