My european mind can very well comprehend this. And a few hours more
Yup. And Norway is even longer if for some reason that’s not enough. In the UK you can also make a 1000+ km trip from north to south, same in France, Italy, Germany or Ukraine. In Turkey you can even leave Europe, drive 12 more hours and still be in Turkey.
Why is fuel called gas
It’s an abbreviation for “gasoline”
Yeah wait hold up I’m in the US where we CALL IT THAT and mine says fuel
Even though it knows I have an EV, which makes it double funny
Like so many things we Americans get bitched at for saying, it’s because that’s what the Brits used to call it.
A British man named John Cassell sold a brand of petroleum-based fuel trademarked as Cazeline. This eventually became Gazeline and then genericized as gasoline, shortened to “gas.”
One could ask why only “gasoline” is called “petrol” elsewhere in the world when several other fuels such as kerosene and diesel are also petroleum-based. Why isn’t diesel also called “petrol?”
The problem with “gas” is, that it’s a state of matter. Usually the word gas is used for natural gas that you’d use in a gas stove. Some vehicles are even upgraded with an actual gas tank, making it double confusing.
To be fair, this Finnish trip is a solid 70 km shorter than the Texas trip, Google is just predicting it will take you longer.
The east-west trip in Texas from Orange to El Paso is 1380 km, but only takes about 12.5 hours because a big chunk of the highway has an 80 mph (130 kph) speed limit
But the finnish trip is 1387 km, from orange to el paso trough san antonio 1373 km. So the finnish fastest route is longer in length too. But yeah we don’t have as fast highways whicg makes the trip way longer in time
Americans think 13 hours in the same state is big? Cute!
This whole thread is the strangest dick measuring contest.
Good thing mine is short AND skinny. Also I shake my hips way worse than Shakira.
Are you from a small state like Liechtenstein ?
Vatican City. We measure travel times via water balloon launches.
Giggles in aussie
You can drive as long as you want, it’s still aussie
Yeah you Aussies get it in a way the Brits just don’t. Your continent is also quite large. Driving from Perth to Sydney is about like the drive from San Francisco to New York. 3 days later you arrive at a different ocean.
I met some Brits on a flight back to Aus and they were a bit confused…
They thought they would be having breakfast at Bondi, bushwalk and picnic in the Blue Mountains then drive down to Melbourne for dinner and back to their hotel in Sydney.
That’s around 20 hours of driving not including stops.
They really didn’t comprehend the scale.
Sometimes I wonder if they do that on purpose just to amuse Americans/Australians/Canadians. “Remember to ask to see things in three corners of the continent in an afternoon and watch them explain how unreasonably gigantic the place is. They seem to love it.”
On the other hand I did once have to explain to one of my British friends what American TV bumpers meant when they said “nine, eight central.” You don’t tend to think about time zones when your whole country fits in one of them.
I didn’t realise Texas was so small. Americans talk about it like it’s big.
If it were a state in Australia, it would be our third-smallest.
That’s more a statement on the USA’s tiny states than anything specific against Texas though.
Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.
We have that in Texas too.
There are millions of cars in the Austin area, and at any given time all of them are on Mopac.
You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there’s very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.
I, a German, am also struggling with travel times/distances in Britain.
Me: (looks at map) I should be there in 1h tops.
Hours pass…
Me: I’m only half way there? WTF!
Maybe not most of America but LA has some famously grueling traffic.
23 hours to go from Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario by the most direct route.
Came here for this. Ontario is massive.
You cannot drive 13 hours from Texas and still be in Texas. In order to drive from someplace you have to leave there.
You can drive 13 hours through Texas. That’s possible.
Also, if you’re in Texas and you have the will to drive 13 hours, I imagine you’d want to leave Texas.
Russia: am I a joke to you?
So anyway as you where saying
That’s multiple countries…
No, but he spends half the time on a ferry.
Correct but it’s still the uk, you can travel for 25h from the uk and still be in the uk
Does it really count if you’re taking a ferry? You’re not even driving and your car gets to rest like it just pulled an 12 hour shift.
That’s not driving for 25 hours, unless you’re driving on water.
yeah correct, instead you park on a ferry for the remaining bit so it’ll probably take longer
If we’re doing ferries, what about Florida Keys to the north slope of Alaska?
What about Murmansk to Habarovsk?
834miles? Is that a joke?
That’s only 12hrs if you drive the speed limit
How about Sweden?
I really can’t. That’s long. (At least for someone from middle EU)
Some people in Daytona Beach can drive 500 miles without even leaving the stadium.
The American mind can’t just comprehend that there’s world besides the USA. Australia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland as many pointed out all have longer routes. Don’t let me get started on Russia or we might end up with a new race between the US and Russia trying to come with the longest road.
Another thing the American mind can’t just comprehend (about Europe) is how someone can drive across multiple countries without ever stopping on checkpoints/border controls/customs and most of time without even exiting/changing highways.
The American mind can’t just comprehend what it is to send money to a friend in another EU country with just a single number. No 3rd party services, no routing and account numbers, no fees, no banking shenanigans. Simply login into your European bank, type the value and the IBAN and the transfer is done. :)
I’m Canadian, I drive 17 hours to get to work everyday.
