On long trips you can prevent drowsiness by:
- Turning on your car radio
- Slowing down so you can react better
- Stopping at regular intervals for a rest ✓
- Moving your eyes from side to side as you drive
Answer: C. Stopping at regular intervals for a rest
Stopping at regular intervals for a rest is how you prevent drowsiness on long trips.
Why this is the answer
The manual's advice for long trips is to plan ahead: get enough sleep, bring a companion to share the driving, and schedule regular stops, using a rough guide of every 100 miles or two hours. The expressway chapter repeats the same idea, telling drivers on long trips to plan frequent rest stops. Breaking the trip up with rest stops is the step the handbook actually names for handling drowsiness, so that is the answer here.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Turning on your car radio — The handbook never lists turning on the radio as a way to deal with drowsiness; its countermeasure for long trips is planning rest stops.
- B. Slowing down so you can react better — Slowing down is not offered in the manual as a fix for drowsiness, which it treats as a problem solved by sleep and stops rather than by a lower speed.
- D. Moving your eyes from side to side as you drive — Moving your eyes from side to side is not mentioned anywhere in the manual's drowsy driving guidance as a way to stay alert.
Remember it
Treat a long trip as a series of legs, not one push: build in a rest stop at least every couple of hours and actually get out of the car.