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 Previous issues: (ESPAÑOL)

Number 1 / Sep 28, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (1)
  - Using automatic transmissions
  - What is a vehicle policy good for?
Number 2 / Oct 4, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (2)
  - What to do when the engine overheats
  - Evaluate and train drivers
Number 3 / Oct 11, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (1)
  - How to distribute load in trucks
  - The reasons why road research is necessary
Number 4 / Oct 18, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (2)
  - Tips to conserve the battery
  - Auditing vehicles
Number 5 / Oct 25, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (3)
  - How to maintain tires in good conditions?
  - Managing vehicle risk
Number 6 / Nov 1, 2007
  - How we adjust car mirrors?
  - How to prevent the engine from overheating?
  - Accidents study
Number 7 / Nov 8, 2007
  - Precautions when driving at night
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (1)
  - Trip planning, a combining tool
Number 8 / Nov 15, 2007
  - Braking with air brakes
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (2)
  - Repair shop audits
Number 9 / Nov 22, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (1)
  - Tire maintenance (1)
  - 24hs driving safely recording
Number 10 / Nov 29, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (2)
  - Tire maintenance (2)
  - Taking responsibility for the hired driving
Number 11 / Dec 6, 2007
  - Driving when it rains
  - Understanding tire markings
  - Access control
Number 12 / Dec 13, 2007
  - Driving with Anti Lock Braking System
  - Coupling system safety
  - Safe driving, Values and Culture
Number 13 / Dec 21, 2007
  - When it's better to avoid driving?
  - Safety chains for coupling systems
  - Management rules and certification
Number 14 / Dec 27, 2007
  - Overspeed brakes' trailers
  - Air conditioning maintenance
  - Where to start from
Number 15 / May 14, 2008
  - Driving Definition
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 16 / May 28, 2008
  - The Attitude's influence when driving
  - Gear box oil
Number 17 / Jun 11, 2008
  - Driving through curves
  - How to choose the best tires
Number 18 / Jun 25, 2008
  - Anxiety effects in driving
  - Maintained shock absorbers, safety vehicles
Number 19 / Jul 10, 2008
  - Driving backwards
  - Prepare your vehicle for cold weather
Number 20 / Jul 23, 2008
  - Sleeping well, better driving
  - Exhaust fumes colour diagnosis
Number 21 / Aug 6, 2008
  - How to ascend and descend slopes safely
  - The engine cooling system
Number 22 / Aug 20, 2008
  - Dysfunctional beliefs in women and men driving
  - Safe Load in Tank Trucks
Number 23 / Sep 3, 2008
  - Driving in the fog
  - Safe lights
Number 24 / Sep 17, 2008
  - Driving in the fog - Second part
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (1)
Number 25 / Oct 1, 2008
  - Bad habits and their influence in behaviour
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (2)
Number 26 / Oct 15, 2008
  - How we learn to drive
  - Reducing tire air pressure
Number 27 / Oct 29, 2008
  - Crossing junctions
  - Dangerous alterations and modifications on heavy vehicles
Number 28 / Nov 12, 2008
  - Driving and distraction
  - Common transmission failures
Number 29 / Nov 26, 2008
  - Two different ways of understanding "Driving"
  - Safe lights
Number 30 / Dec 10, 2008
  - Preventing distractions
  - Failures easy to be detected
Number 31 / Jan 14, 2009
  - "Accident", its definition
  - Electronic Stability Control
Number 32 / Jan 28, 2009
  - Fatigue, the driving enemy
  - The steering on vehicles
Number 33 / Feb 11, 2009
  - Perceptual phenomena
  - Steering regulation
Number 34 / Feb 25, 2009
  - Car drivers and bikers, an intelligent coexistence
  - Progress in steering systems
Number 35 / Mar 11, 2009
  - Wrong horn usage
  - How the clutch works
Number 36 / 25 Mar, 2009
  - Driving in snowy roads
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 37 / 8 Abr, 2009
  - Understanding signposting
  - Expiring dates
Number 38 / 22 Abr, 2009
  - Rage control
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (1)
Number 39 / 6 May, 2009
  - Can we improve our driving techniques?
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (2)
Number 40 / 20 May, 2009
  - Driving and antidepressants, a dangerous combination
  - Correct 4x4 transmissions usage
Number 41 / 3 Jun, 2009
  - The attention degree can be improved
  - Maintenance: the key to extend the engine's service life
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Info Manejo September 3, 2008
 number 23
We are sending you the 23rd INFO MANEJO's issue. Today we bring you the recommendations for safe driving in fog and you will learn the lightning maintenance tips.

We also invite you to visit our new web site where you will find previous INFO MANEJO issues, in their Spanish and English versions.

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   Driving in the fog    First part
Media informs us daily about the large amount of "accidents occurred because of the fog". This expression gives all responsibilities to the meteorological phenomenon, which might direct us to a mistaken belief: "while there is fog, accidents are inevitable". Let's think that maybe we should just say "accidents occurred in the fog".

We do not have the ability to eliminate fog, nor would it be useful to pass a bill to penalize people that crash due to the fog. However, there are deaths and accidents still happening due to the fog in Latin America. Is there anything different to do to prevent all these accidents from occurring? Could we be able to realize of the big risk driving in the fog is?

The only way out to this problem is training and understanding driving as an intelligent activity, influenced by the emotional aspect. It's important to recognize the adverse environmental conditions that make vision difficult and which turn into a high risk when driving, in order to identify personal and the vehicle's limits, acting safely.

What is the fog?

Fog is a meteorological phenomenon that we can observe in the atmosphere like a grey shapeless mass with variable density, which generally does not touch the floor. Physics explain it as a thermodynamic process that begins when the floor dampness evaporates, causing the humid air ascent, which when it cools up later, it transforms into very low clouds, that when they gather randomly, this cause "fog banks".

Relative dampness close to 100% and an air temperature below the dew point are the climatic conditions which favor this phenomenon to appear. It is important to be aware that when we drive through routes in cold nights and we listen to the news and there is dampness close to 100%, attention, there will be almost for sure fog.

As these phenomenons diffuse rays of light, they condition visual perception, reducing the anticipating capacity which is vital to drive safe.

Driving in the fog represents one of the most dangerous conditions; in the next InfoManejo edition we will bring you some recommendations.

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    Safe lights
Thanks to the vehicles' headlamps we can drive at night or with low visibility. Lighting systems maintenance is fundamental to drive safely in different climatic conditions and prevent glares.

Maintenance tips:

+ Keep the crystals clean, they offer you a good visibility. If lights or pilot lights are dirty, lighting distance and the one from we are seen also reduces. Plus, it is necessary to control that humidity does not accumulate nor condensation occurs inside lights or pilots. Replace them if there are fractures.

+ Lights and pilots do not last for ever. If a light blows, replace both at the same time. It is recommendable replacing them every two years approximately. If they are halogen, do not touch them.

+ Use lights permanently while your vehicle is on, even in daylight. Remember that it is important to see but also to be seen.

+ Check periodically that all your lights work correctly. Also adjust the lights, if they are high, they will glare other drivers, if they are low, there will be less visibility.

+ It is compulsory to have extra lamps and the tools to change them, except if they are xenon lights.

+ To prevent glaring other drivers, replace high lights for low when we approach a vehicle from behind or when others come the opposite way.

Advances

Until the fifties, vehicle lamps were incandescent. Then, in the mid 70's manufacturers started using halogen lamps, which had a better luminous performance than the previously used. However, due to more aerodynamic designs necessities and the lamp performance there is nowadays a new lamp system called xenon. It is based on a physical principle -gas discharge- completely different to previous lighting methods. Xenon lamps consume significantly less energy than halogen lamps and their luminous performance is more then 90%. Plus, its light reduces visual fatigue. This kind of lights it began to be used in more light vehicles.


On the other hand, LED or neon pilot lights are replacing the incandescent ones due to their various benefits: less response time, more contrast between off and on and durability is longer than the car's life. Plus, LED have colored diode, so if the exterior transparency breaks, color stays.

In the next editions we will deal with other lighting advances and their original solutions.


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