It seems about right, I’ve done the trip from Barcelona to Madrid, it took six hours.
Now let’s see one by train from those same cities.
That’s surprisingly specific.
London to Dublin, Ireland in 7 hrs??
There’s a ferry
Do that in Australia and you’re possibly in the next state
Istanbul is not a capital city. Capital of Turkey is Ankara. Obligatory: Erdogan is a fucking twat
btw, Constantinople¹ is also not the capital. Why they changed it, though, I can’t say.
¹ nople
Its nobodies business but the Turks.
I mean,
even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Thank you :)
Istanbul is not a capital…someone already said it.What’s with this Mercator projection? GB is giant.
By the way: This “how far can I get from a specific point within time xy?” is called isochrones.
Very interesting when you move somewhere and want to know what’s in range.
No german city pictured because infinite -10% is still infinite
The suggested speed on the Autobahn is still 130 km/h. If you’re going significantly faster and cause an accident, your insurance will probably consider you at fault and only cover what they’re (edit: legally) obligated to.
Why would any insurance company pay more than they are obligated to?
Cause a bro has always got a bros back.
I read a while back that more and more of the Autobahn has a speed limit these days.
Much of the Autobahn does have limits though :)
Most of it is under construction and has like a 50Km/h limit.
Usually 80. Goes to 60 if lanes are too narrow
I drive in Germany sometimes and the roads are too busy to be going very fast, my average never got much higher than 150 km/h even if you only count the fastest portions. To be fair I haven’t tried crossing the country starting on a Sunday at 3 AM, you can probably go as fast as is efficient to not waste time on extra refuelling because of the car’s drag.
Ah yes the Polish capital of Poland
At least they got it correct with the Vatican City being the capital of Italy
Would be cool if Warsaw was called Po though
Po is a river in Italy.
And the german word for Butt. It’s short for the latin word Podex, meaning “farter”.
Do a lot of Europeans stay 10% under the speed limit? Because that sure as hell ain’t the case in America.
I think its to calculate with the likely stops you are going to take during the journey
In my experience, travelling ~90km/h most of the time but adhering to local limits, stop signs, etc. drags you down to the average ~60km/h speed all throughout the route.
As for going 120km/h on the highway, you still effectively get around 80-100km/h average speed.
10% down is extremely optimistic
In Portugal speed limits are treated as suggestions.
People watch rally and F1. What do you think.
Depends. Common 4-lane setup tends to flow like130, 120, 100, 90, with trucks not allowed to leave the two slower lanes or exceed 100/110.
Also depends on the country, but people generally stick to the 130 limits with a few speeders pushing 140/150. Unrestricted zones still have speed limits to lanes so only the fastest lane is unlimited. Some countries the speed signs are just ignored because they’re ridiculous. If you were to adhere to them, you’d put yourself at risk with the rest of the flow of traffic.
I’d say most of the time, cruising easy, and in usual traffic you’re between 110-130. So 120 avg. or 75 mph is about right.
But to be fair trafic jams and stops are not included and those take time as well
Now do public transport (not @ OP, just stating a desire for a railway+bus+foot alternative
you wont believe it : https://sopuli.xyz/post/35479366
that isn’t including time; I understand that layovers make it hard, but they are important for comparing cars to public transit
A lot more direct routes are on the brink of popping up in Europe, EU launched a very ambitious 2035 and 2040 plan.
We’ve already seen a few routes like Copenhagen - Prague pop up, due to expected new infrastructure (Femern Tunnel) landing soon.
Once EU legitimately builds high speed rails connecting all European capitals, I bet ya we’re going to be able to cross the continent with 3 layovers. As long as we stick to larger cities, add 2-3 stops for local connections if you want to go to smaller areas and 2-3 stops if you start in a smaller area.
Sources for the EU high level plan:
https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-modes/rail/high-speed-rail-plan_en
Is being able to have it all part of one itinerary part of the plan?
TIL about the channel tunnel!
yeah it’s neat but you don’t technically drive through it. You get the car on a train. Still cool though.
Get in loser we are invading Belarus!
Making Poland great again?
Isn’t it nice that you can drive 8 hours and still not be in France?
