This is meaningless if it drives back on the same roads. “You can drive for 30 hours on a roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire without ever leaving the roundabout in Blackburn, Lancashire”
Yeah I can drive for 30 hours and still be in my hometown, in fact, I can spend my entire life there. Crazy
I shudder at the thought of 30 hours in Blackburn.
No chance with all those holes though
Thank you
False. You’d have to stop and get gas thereby necessitating that you leave the roundabout in Blackburn
If airplanes can refuel mid flight, then so the fuck can I mid roundabout.
Well, it’s a weird state carved out of two peninsulas and there’s only the one bridge.
Fake news
(I would get dizzy and need to stop after maybe an hour)
No you’ll be reyt, it’s the big roundabout near the M65 with the Maccy’s and new KFC. Traffic lights are a nightmare on it so you’ll spend half the time sat still
If it’s got traffic lights it’s not a round about.
It’s just a sparkling intersection.
I can drive around my block for 30 hours and still be on my block! It’s crazy!
I don’t really think this counts, since he doubles back around at a point, I mean, if you’re allowed to do that, you can drive for 30 hours almost anywhere, and still be in the same area.
Loopty loop. If your open to that you should carefully plan your route through local streets to make drawings.
Also if time is what counts remember to leave on time for rush hour and prefer inner roads with lots of traffic lights.
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It’s a loop around the border of the state, not doubling back, but yeah.
You’re right, apart from the bridge and the immediate way back at the farthest north point, they didn’t retrace any steps. But yeah.
Same road, different lanes I guess.
Hate the game, not the player. The UP doesn’t really fit in MI.
That sounds like some dirty Wisconsinite talk.
You can do this in WA, but without looping back
Damn they even got a Denmark down under, poor saps
On these kinds of roads that go across Australia, are they well maintained? I’m guessing it’s not like a highway the whole way. Are there frequent enough towns, petrol stations etc.? How easily can you end up stranded in the middle of nowhere?
Going through some of those parts, chances are some of them are probably unsealed - though I suspect google maps will always generally try to pick the sealed roads.
As for petrol stations… Yeah keep a few Jerrys with you, just in case, as well as a spare full size tire or two (space savers are a bad idea in the outback) as well as a toolbox, with basic tools, hose clamps, etc. and plenty of drinking water/snacks. Maybe even a few packed lunches.
The nullaboar (Latin for “no tree”) plains along the coast of south/western Australia are well known for having the one long, straight, featureless Eyre highway with a whole lot of space Between petrol stations. The most dangerous thing about those roads is fatigue from looking at the constant unchanging scenery for hours at a time. The second is running out of fuel or breaking down - where you gotta hope you’ve got the shit to fix stuff, because it’s highly unlikely you’ll see a friend on the road for at least an hour or two, if not longer.
It’s so long that there are three designated airstrips on the highway designed for emergency landings and air ambulances (royal flying doctor service FTW - seriously, those guys deserve all the praise, true heros)
I would think there’s no speed cameras in the midst of nothing, which leads to the question… How fast can you safely go on those roads?
Yep I heard some parts will be like 1000km without stations and stuff like that so you need to be well prepared with extra gas etc.
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Dude, you can drive 30 hours in London and still be in London.
Traffic that bad, huh?
I believe a tourist once managed that on the M25. Apparently the idea of a looping motorway can be a bit beyond some.
While London traffic can be frustrating, it’s not actually that bad. At least compared to a lot of American cities, let alone somewhere like Mexico city.
Well that’s wild, we have looping highways in the states too. No cure for stupid, I guess
And most anywhere else in the world that they’re geographically practical.
Even Charlotte merits one. And Pittsburgh. And basically the entire country of Afghanistan, which is kind of interesting in and of itself.
Not all are “highway” standard, but the concept is kind of universal.
Or you know, Rome.
When I went there I discovered that Mario Kart was a documentary. I have never been carsick until I flew South America to rome, then got into a shuttle to my hotel.
You could easily spend that and more spiralling Greater London
I can drive in my neighbourhood for 40 hours and still be in my neighbourhood. The street forms a loop.
It’s like OP forgot circles exist or something idfk
It’s his American Grade education…
If you look real close at the map, and you might miss this, you’ll notice that OP’s “circle”, as you describe it, hasn’t overlapped at all. That in a singular state is impressive. I challenge you to do that with a European country
Sure it does, it doubles back on itself at Ironwood, Copper Harbor, Sault Ste. Marie, and passes through Mackinaw twice. I don’t care whether you can drive a similar distance in a European country or not, but you can’t just blatantly lie about this route not overlapping when it clearly does multiple times.
Driving around Germany is probanly a similar distance, it just doesn’t take as long.
Best I got without doing any double takes was Flensburg - Düsseldorf - Freiburg - Friedrichshafen - Deggendorf - Dresden - Rostock - Kiel, for a total of about 28 hrs and approx 2,559 km (~1,500 miles).
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6XqbfMMPjmMHWQpJ8
Might be able to eke out those extra 200 miles by including Saarbrücken.
For France I got a 39h/3,926km Tour de France
Very Nice (pun intended).
It kinda looks like a starfish.
I got a 34 hour loop around Italy without trying to follow the slow local coastal roads and not having to veer too close to France. 😘
Chatgpt estimates a trip around the outer most Autobahn at a 3k to 4k Kilometer. Taking 30-40 hours to drive.
Unfortunately LLMs are specifically terrible at this kind of calculation
Germany is smaller than several US states. Germany would fit twice into Texas and four times into Alaska, for instance.
It doesn’t blow our mind at all. We couldn’t give a fuck. Its a pointless statement.
What blows mind is that you leave London drive three hours in any direction and everyone has a unique accent.
Not really because if you drive 3 hours away from London you’re only about half a mile from London.
I laughed aloud at this. Yes. I’ve done this. Hope never again.
According to google it takes you 3 hrs to get to Calais, France, so… Yeah , quite the English accent there xD
You could drive 3 miles to the next village from where I grew up and hear a totally different accent.
Look, its Michigan. This is almost all they have going for them. Let them have their dream.
You Europeans lack imagination
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You won’t even have schools under sharia law
Maybe get yourself a passport and see some of the world.
Schools absolutely do exist in places that have sharia law. A very small percentage of Muslims are extremists if that’s what you are getting at… Its probably a larger percentage of americans who are racist radicals with tin foil hats and a bad attitude to humanity. All your terrorism is domestic. But yeah Islam is bad eh?!
I live in a 274 year old building with original stained glass windows. The US mind cannot comprehend this.
I live on land 200 million years old. The human mind cannot comprehend that.
Above*. Pretty sure the land from 200 million years ago has been buried quite deep by now
When I lived in Germany, I lived in a building that was built before Columbus sailed on a canal built by the Romans.
Yeah, we would have replaced them with at least double pane windows to keep heating and cooling costs down by now. Central AC is standard most places here. Especially because I grew up in what could be considered the northern part of a swamp.
Yeah, 200+ years old houses arent too alien. Especially since mexico has ones that are even older. Hell if I looked around the east coast enough I could probably find some built by my ancestors.
This MF gonna lose their mind when they find out about roundabouts!
I went to Milton Keynes in 2009, and I still haven’t stopped driving yet
If you just drive back and forth and in circles you can do this in Luxembourg, too, I ain’t impressed
Luxembourg is a country that’s barely larger than a city, the american mind cannot comprehend this.
Why? DC isn’t even as large as it’s own metro area. Do you have any countries that are smaller than the city they’re in? (The Vatican doesn’t count because I said so)
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It’s true. As a European I had no idea where Michigan was.
It’s right next to Wisconsin, duh.
You could drive in a “straight line” across Ukraine for 23 hours…
Until you run into Russians tanks…
They are pretty good at keeping the trash from the roads, should be no problem.
I can also drive 30 h around in my driveway.
Sure, but in Europe you can drive for 30 hours passing from a metropolitan area to another. You probably don’t know what I mean but the population of london is slightly less than the entire population of michigan. Italy alone has a population that is one fifth of the ENTIRE US.
So Italy, a mid-sized European country, has a population 1/5 the size of the United States? Why is that … surprising?
I guess what they mean is the following:
Italy is about the size of michigan (300vs250km²) but has about 6 times the population (58Mio vs 10Mio). The population density of Italy is 5 times as high.
Source wolframalpha:
Size and population
Population density
Add in Poland, add in Germany, and you are already at 3/5. France and UK, and you beat US. Total, Europe has 750mln people, with similar area.
That’s only if you include Russia (145 million) and Turkey (85 million). You only include those countries in “Europe” when you want to. That’s like the US including CA and MX in its population just because they’re nearby.
Okay, countries just within the European Union have a population of 450mln. Also, we were talking about demographics - Europe vs United States. Everyone includes those countries.
