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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2006
     

    if that someone travelled from sky island in scotland to cornwall travelling by car 1 mph below the speed limit of each road they traveled on all the way,with a partner,taking turns at driving.if they drove in 3 hour shifts each and they stopped to eat for one hour once a day?
    hypothetically how long would it take?
    and they drove in 3 hour shifts each and they stopped to eat for one hour once a day?

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2006 edited
     

    I'd recommend about 5 hour shifts, with a four-hour stop for a true "sleep" and meal/shower time. That's still driving 20 hours/day. 3 hours is not enough to get decent sleep; they'd be a hazard on the road.

    If we're going hypothetical, why not make the travel speed exactly the speed limit for easier calculations? We'd also have to negate traffic & construction considerations.

    Are there any maps of GB that have speed limits in the various areas?

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeAug 30th 2006
     

    i dnt think there are u could always check the highway site or the government records site or summat

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeAug 30th 2006
     

    id say tht sounds a good idea to me udoboy btw

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeSep 4th 2006
     

    but i was thinking one sleeps for 3 hours while another drives and they take it in turns doing so

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeSep 5th 2006
     

    I understand what you meant. I'm just saying that I've been on 5 and 5 shifts [five hours on, five off, with a 4 hour to complete the day] before. That's nerve-wracking. 3 and 3 shifts would drive a person insane, and be dangerous. I know that after a couple of these, I wouldn't be able to sleep with the other guy driving while sleep-deprived.

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2006
     

    I'm sorry to say that I've been a sad git.

    45 miles of B roads
    260 miles of A roads
    400 miles of motorways

    speed limits are:
    B - 40
    A - 60
    M - 70

    so you have approximately 11-12 hours of driving time there.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2006
     

    Is that all?

    Sorry, I live in Texas. I expect everything to take at least a day and a half.

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    lmao no kidding it takes like 8 hrs just to get to any border from College Station (pretty much in the middle)

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2006
     

    well england basically the same size as new york state, and you have ranches in texas the size of wales, so it's kinda on a different scale lol

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2006
     

    While there may well be some Texas ranches as big as Wales, some are merely the size of whales.

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      CommentAuthorGeog
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2006
     

    *chuckles* It's a play on words!

    Posted By: MrFingers

    45 miles of B roads
    260 miles of A roads
    400 miles of motorways

    speed limits are:
    B - 40
    A - 60
    M - 70

    so you have approximately 11-12 hours of driving time there.

    Did you take into consideration the odd variable of 1 mph below the speed limit?

    And what about stopping for food and rest?

    Come on! This can't be that easy...

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2006 edited
     

    I don't know about in the UK, but here in the US, you also have to take into consideration construction zones, which lower the speed limits. Here in Michigan, there's always something slowing drivers down.

    Oh yeah - the food and rest could be taken in shifts as was mentioned above, but you would definitely need to stop for "pit stops" somewhere in there. Assuming 15 minutes every 3-4 hours, that would make your drive time closer to 12 to 13 hours before figuring construction, traffic lights, pedestrians, and little blue haired ladies driving 10 miles below the speed limit in front of you.

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeSep 13th 2006 edited
     

    no i could not be arsed to do such fickle things, just the total drive time at the speed limit.

    and yeah athene you are right about those things, but I kinda figure you could just make up lost time no problem on the easy bits.

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    Central London to Brighton during my last vacation there was a very easy afternoon drive, even with a rather long stop to look at pretty rocks on the Salisbury plain.

    I think the 12+ hours north to south would be a more tiring drive than a 12 hours drive in the states though...

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2006
     
    Posted By: Athene

    I don't know about in the UK, but here in the US, you also have to take into consideration construction zones, which lower the speed limits. Here in Michigan, there's always something slowing drivers down.

    Reminds me of a Steven Brust joke:

    I'm from Minnesota, which is a Native American word meaning "land of perpetual road repair."

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2006
     

    I thought that was Michigan!! Our state tree is the orange barrel and the state joke is "Men working."

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    I was sure that was Arizona... And while driving thru Nevada, I saw a cartoon in a truckstop that firmly implied that they were just as sure it was Nevada. :-)

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2006
     

    I once saw a sign in Oregon "Men and Equipment Working."

    All you other states need to get the equipment working before anything can be accomplished.
    Man I wish I'd taken a picture of that sign.

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2006
     

    Well, now instead of making our speed limits 45 in construction zones all the time, it's 45 "when workers present," which in and of itself is a joke, since I've never seen any one work in a construction zone. :words:

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    It looke like they're adopting the California standard here... Slow all the time in destruction zones, but "fines double when workers are present".

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2006
     

    I've seen workers doing stuff occasionally, they seem to come out in the middle of the night when there is little traffic to play chicken with...

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeOct 13th 2006 edited
     

    btw if it was 3 drivers that took it in shifts to drive,sleeping in the back seats while 1 navigates and 1 drives and switching places every 6 hours.
    maybe if in a RV Motorhome
    would that be easier and safer.
    and yes id say at the speed limit would make more sense
    so wat was the calculatons agen?

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    Coming from the Uk I was interested to see Devils Advocate driving from Central London to Brighton via Salisbury Plain. I know the Uk is small but a detour of over 120 miles just to see a pile of rectangular rocks seems a bit over the top. Stonehenge, the large rocks, is west of London and Brighton is south.

    The considered top to bottom route of the UK is from John O'Groats to Lands End a total distance of approximately 1350 kilometers or 840 miles. and if you kept to the speed limit then it would take around 16.5 hours to drive it non stop. However if you actually tried to drive this then you would find that the the roads in Scotland narrow to nothing and get blocked by sheep, a single one would do it, and in cornwall at the other end a tractor or caravan would be blocking your way. you would be slowed to around 10 mph on the motorways due to construction projects always scheduled to be in place for rush hour traffic, Manchester and Birminham are the best. The answer is a lifetime as you would give up and cry at an overpriced service station on the way, $6.00 for a cup of coffee! The best way to do it is slowly on a pushbike, ait takes about 2 weeks and there is absolutely georgeous scenery on the way.

    Although you may like to know. that it has been run in just under 13 days and a man in a JCB, a mechanical digger, did manage to do it in 22 hours 10 minutes and 30 seconds but he probably pushed things out of the way :wink:

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      CommentAuthorMonetdell
    • CommentTimeOct 18th 2006 edited
     

    ty for the answers i always wondered,tht sounds logical to me dragon:cool::cheer::clap::crazy::swingin:

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    According to the AA Roadwatch site, http://www.theaa.com/travelwatch/planner_main.jsp travelling from Skye Bridge to Penzance in cornwall is a distance of 736 miles. Travelling at the speed limit would take I4.5 hours, add the hour for lunch, call it 15.5 hours.
    But having done most of this journey, i can say that the first stretch, on the A82 can be a bitsch, and even tho theres a 60mph speed limit on much of it its hard to keep to that speed.
    Personally I'd take two days and have a break in Cumbria. Ullswater's nice.:bigsmile:

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    A Texan in a Welsh bar..
    So what do you do?
    I'm a farmer, look you
    How big's you spread?
    Eh?
    How big's your farm?
    About 12 acres
    In Texas, if you drove round the outside of my farm it would take 6 hours.
    Oh, I had a car like that once.

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