"In the US, 100 years is a long time, but in Europe, 100 miles is a long way"
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Bfd. I can drive 13 hours in Germany from the Dutch border and still be stuck in a fucking traffic jam around Frankfurt on highway 3 and never get to my skiing destination in Austria.
Tbf you drive super slow on your lonely highways. If that Was an Autobahn you could easily cut that time in half.
Texas highways have speed limits of up to 137kph (85mph), with most a little lower at 120kph (75mph). Autobahn "recommended" speed is 130kph (80mph).
While the Autobahn unrestricted areas have no speed limit, Texas drivers essentially always drive at least 10% over the speed limit and often reach speeds of 145kph (90mph) to 160kph (100mph).
That said, some rural highways are slower at like 88-105kph (55 - 65mph), but people still go much faster than that and only slow down if they think there are police or if they're approaching a small town on the highway where there will definitely be police to enforce the speed limit.
We also manage to get into like 10000x more wreckes than happen on the Autobahn, so that does sometimes slow things down.
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In northern Canada you could drive that long without even seeing another person lol
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A lot of you guys sharing pictures of your whole country as a 15 hour drive are missing the point here.
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23 hours to go from Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario by the most direct route.
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I miss the days when Google maps would tell you to get in a canoe for transoceanic routes.
I suspect some enterprising person actually tried it, thus depriving the rest of us our directional humor.
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Sure, but I can drive for more than 11 hours and still be in Romania 👍
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Meanwhile in Canada it takes nearly a full day to drive from one side of Ontario to the other. I have more faith in the European mind comprehending this than the USA'ean mind.
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Finland: 17 hours from Utsjoki to Helsinki.
Norway: 36 hours from Vardø to Lindsenes.
Sweden: idk why you'd go there
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Let's not talk driving hours, let us talk mileage. 13 hours on a Texas highway is going to cover much more land than trying to drive some 12th century side street in an Italian village at 5km/h.
It was crazy to realize on a recent road trip through the middle of the US, that half of my day's planned drive was the width of Germany.
Euros: Why didn't Americans go to other countries?
Americans: there's only three countries on our entire damned continent, and ours is in the middle. Without needing to fly we have literally two choices. It we could drive for a thousand miles and still be in America.
All of continental Europe is smaller than our country and we mostly all speak the same language, more or less. It's debatable if Louisianans speak English.
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oh look, an international dick measuring contest... except without dicks!
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You can do that and still not get all the way through Nordland county (!) in Norway 🤷
In North America, we think 100 years is a long time. In Europe they think 100 miles is a long distance.
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half of that time is sitting in san antonio traffic.