I have sleep apnea and been on CPAP therapy for nearly 30 years. My narcoleptic wife’s treatment led me to her physician and the diagnosis. My initial symptom was a slight reduction in short term memory. But once diagnosed and CPAP treated, the symptoms abated provided I get at least one CPAP treatment every three days. I choose nightly treatment just to be safe but CPAP is invasive to your bedmate. It was an accidental 14 day absence that led to AutoPilot saving me and my late wife the second month of Tesla ownership in 2019. Regardless, here is another example: I had seen similar behavior with Joe Biden. It is an under diagnosed syndrome that explains a lot of single car accidents (and some multi-car ones.) There are online questionnaires that help screening. Ask your search engine (or not) to find them. CPAP treatment works but only if diagnosed and treated. Bob Wilson
I feel that driving is a bit unnatural and it's forced on all of us, at least in countries like the USA. If driving were a hobby I'm sure there'd be a lot of people who wouldn't have started driving in the first place. Every day I see people make driving mistakes, mistakes that could lead to a deadly accident. The SUV craze seems to have also given people a bit of overconfidence too, so they're even less concentrated on driving safely. Autonomous driving might be the solution. If you can make every car drive itself better than the average driver then accidents should go down. I will say that I also enjoy public transportation when I'm in an area where it's good. We went down to the big city of Denver the other day. We took the light rail and a few buses all over Denver and its surrounding cities. For the most part it was nice, no traffic to deal with, no need to find a parking spot. Then, on the next day, we decided to take the car downtown. The next thing you know we were gridlocked into extremely slow traffic. We could have made it there and back on the light rail in half the time. And once downtown I dropped my wife off and spent the next half hour driving in circles looking for a place to park. I finally found one and of course it was paid parking. The nicest thing about public transportation is I can set my watch alarm to wake me up before my stop and then sleep all I want up to that point.
