Does anyone get a mild dizziness...
Created December 28, 2004, at 1:20 am by Anonymous
I am an engineer and an Insight owner. I fully embrace the technologies that are found in this wonderfully engineered vehicle. But I do notice one thing that may not be so apppealing. I drive 200+ mile a day in my insight. When I am in the car and even after I leave the car, I feel a mild dizzeness the same kind of sensation one gets from talikng on a cell phone for a long period of time. I was aware of the electrical magnetic field that is generated by the electrical system. But I never thought it could auctally have an effect on me. Does anyone feel the same?
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no - not in my honda civic.
maybe it's spinning from such a clean machine?
actually there might be something like a condition response where all your life you drove around in noisy cars and now you're in something pretty quiet. it's messing up your rooted expectations of what a car sounds like?
turn up the stereo!
see ya
steve
There have been exhaustive studies on the effects of radio waves and magnetic lines of flux on the human body.
Yes, radioactive substances are bad for us. And yes, putting your head in a microwave and turning it on will make your head explode.
However, the power level that cell phones operate at are far less than those used by microwaves, and although another round of studies has been ordered into cell phone usage (mostly due to the recent cell phone explosions) no one has yet found any conclusive, "no b.s." proof of harm to humans through the use of these items....yet....
Apparently, magnetic fields are even less of a concern. Although some people claim to have been healed or have felt better through the application of magnets to various parts of the body, or slept in various alignments with the earth's own magnetic field, there has been no conclusive evidence of either benefits or damage done to a human subjected to even very, very great magnetic fields.
That said, the magnetic field generated by the electric portion of a hybrid engine should not be much greater than the one produced by the starter or the alternator of a standard combustion engine.
If you are feeling dizziness/sleepiness after driving your new car, you might check the exhaust system for leaks, or possibly have the door seals checked. Carbon monoxide gases from engine exhaust will cause dizziness/sleepiness, and has no significant odor (although other gases from engine exhaust will have an odor).
you know, a rumour that driving a hybrid will extend your life from exposure to *good* electromagnetic waves would be a cool way to increase drivership!
i happen to also be a potter & noticed that a lot of formal potters live to hit 100 years old!
maybe BOTH hybrid driving & pottery will extend my life?
enough of a reason to keep up BOTH habits...
see ya
I recently drove 700+ miles from Poughkeepsie, NY to Dayton, OH in 12 hours in a 2004 Prius. As another anecdote then, let me report no dizziness at all. And the Prius, being a full hybrid has a much bigger electrical motor (about 65 hp) than the Insight (about 13 hp). I agree with the other respondent that any actual dizziness is probably an exhaust leakage problem.
I should also add the the plural of anecdotes is NOT data. (Actually the plural of anecdotes is religion.)
I haven't noticed this dizziness in my insight, but I have noticed that on highway driving I seem to be ideally positioned to pick up a lot of diesel truck exaust in cold temperatures. You might want to try putting your vents on recycle, in case it is the carbon monoxide/fumes issue raised above.
I had a first year Insight .I use to drive it at least 400 miles a day.I thought I would try to go for a record and hit 96.1mpg on 1 tank (thats 961+miles on 1 tank) .Honda has me in thier records I guess .B4 that I hit 82.4 mpg on a sigle tank .I was having fun with it and never was dizzy.I like Insights cuz, to me they r very different they "grab" ppl and get 2nd looks.
My wife bought a 2007 Prius, and is planning to sell after putting only 5K miles on it. She complains of a light-headed, dizzy feeling when driving that takes an hour or so to dissapate after she gets out of the car. The feeling comes over her after only 30 minutes of driving. A couple of friends borrowed the car for a day, and told her they felt the same way. Driving with all of the windows open helps, but does not aleviate the problem.
The dealer can't find any problems with it. But she is afraid of driving it, thinks she might pass out. Sounds to me like she has the same problem that you do.
No dizziness mate.. I have an eerie feeling, but I don't think it is dizziness.
New cars also emit lots of chemicals from materials used, and some people are sensitive to that. Maybe the dizziness comes from that...?
My mom and dad own a Prius (I'm 26 but still live at home because of personal problems)...it's really my mom's car, she's the one that drives it. We have never had a problem with it until today when we were headed somewhere (she was driving) and I started to feel kind of dizzy and lightheaded. then my mom dropped me off, went off on her way to do some errands, picked me up a few hours later saying she had a huge headache. I got back in the car to come home and I am still feeling the effects....When she got out of the car she was acting strange and seemed really especially tired, but she insists that there is nothing wrong with the car and I am worried.
well this forum doesn't seem to be hoppin' so I probably won't get an answer soon....
I'm feeling sleepy in my 2 week old 2008 Prius. I drive 35 miles to work -- and was always alert and enjoying NPR enroute in my 1999 Volvo. Since driving the Prius I find myself bored -- and getting sleepy. Yesterday, driving 60 miles to our weekend house, I found myself almost nodding out -- more than once. This never happened in the Volvo. What evidence/information is there on sleepiness caused by a hybrid?
Have been driving an 08 Civic Hybrid for 5 weeks. I don't get sleepy going to work but fight sleep coming home and even close my eyes at stop lights at five in the afternoon. My husband and I recently took a small 300 mile drive and both had the same "really want to go to sleep" complaint while heading home in the mid afternoon. It honestly seems subsequent to purchasing the car, and the intensity of the sleepiness is what is so remarkable. Still love the car but may have to pull over and take a nap in order to come home from work. guess I'm just getting old.
I own an 06 Civic hybrid and have found that on my 50 mile drive to and from work, I feel an intense sleepiness even in the morning after a good night of sleep. I also have trouble focusing my eyes on traffic around me. I am very worried that I will crash from nodding off. I have nodded off several times and found myself running off the road or in the lane of incomming traffic. I have even been to a sleep specialist to try to find out if I have some kind of sleep disorder. After two different types of sleep studies my Doctor found no problems with sleep but did put me on Provigil to keep me from falling asleep while driving. Provigil is a performance enhancing drug used by the military to keep long distant bomber pilots from falling asleep. It is also used to treat narcalepsy. Even with this, I have nodded off while driving. Something is happening while driving my hybrid that I have never experienced driving my conventional vehicals.
I don't own a Prius, but have ridden as passenger in a Prius three or four times for 2-3 hour trips. Each time I have felt fine until I stepped out of the car. Then I would feel dizzy, almost to the
point of panic, with a whooshing in my ears. I've tried to bear with it, and eventually it has faded to normal. I will be riding in the car again tomorrow, and I plan to keep the window open as much as possible. I can't say I'm looking forward to feeling like that again. This has not happened to me in other Toyota vehicles; I regularly drive a Rav4 without problems. I don't have agoraphobia or panic attacks, but I am allergic to sulfites . I don't know whether it is something inside the car, or something to do with its hybrid-ness that causes the dizziness. Any suggestions?
I am feeling weak, and lethargic, my eyes want to roll in the back of my head, it seems like it happens when i am driving my vehicle, i do let it warm up and even if i drive a short period of time, i feel like a person feels when they are put under for surgery, it scares me, i keep thinking possible carbon monoxide poisining, help
If you think you may have a carbon monoxide leak why don't you purchase a CO2 detector and see if it sounds off while driving.
The sleepiness is likely caused by the electromagnetic fluxions emitted by the hybrid system. The Insight is the worst for this, of course, because it has the most aggressive hybrid system, giving over 70 mpg economy in routine use if you're careful and not sleepy.
Unfortunately, there's not much that the automotive engineering community can do about this problem. As the intensity of the current in the cables between the battery and the motor increases, more fluxions are emitted. They interact with the cells in your nervous system because the wavelength of the fluxions is similar to the length of the cells which causes a resonance. Even with aluminum shielding around the various electronic components there is some leakage. They could improve the situation by using lead shielding, but this would increase the weight of the car.
Some people have found that adding a fluxion absorber can help. This consists of a small antenna with an effective length comparable to that of the wavelength of the fluxions, connected to an energy-absorbing reactance. Basically what you do is assemble a 32 cm long aluminum rod (the calculation of this length is somewhat complicated because you have to take in the end effect) with a 10k ohm resistor at the end, and connect it to the body of the car. If you put it right behind the seat it will reduce the fluxions in the area of the seat and thus reduce your sleepiness.
My wife says she awoke in a ditch when driving he 2007 Prius. This was a clear day, and she was returning her mother home. She is not on medications and doesn't drink. When I drive it, I find myself constantly yawning and irritable. As an aside, the towing operator did more damage than the ditch - and someone walked on the roof, requiring the roof to be replaced ($17k damages - fortunatly insurance covered). State Trooper cited her for reckless driving which she definately is not.
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