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Daily isn't the problem, it's the weekend excursions.

• peteretep 11y ago
  In America. Much of the rest of the developed world considers 400 miles of driving over a weekend to be crazy talk.
  • LukaAl 11y ago
    In Europe a weekend, or even a daily trip if you happen to live close enough, to the mountain in winter for skiing is considered common and acceptable. The distance is well inside the range of Tesla's battery if it wasn't for the altitude and the cold weather. If you don't have a charging station at your destination, better start walking...
    • peteretep 11y ago
      In the part of Europe I'm from, we have trains for this eventuality...
      • crabasa 11y ago
        I'm glad we've zeroed in on "in the part of a continent that I live in" from your initial pan-Europe generalization.
        • peteretep 11y ago
          I'm glad we've uncovered the fact that you consider "the developed world" to be the continent you're from... O_o It would also be worth adding that the part of Europe with good train coverage is "much of it".
          • devsquid 11y ago
            Lucky. "America", ie the US, is pretty huge and empty. When I was in college, my friends would often drive about 350 miles one way to go home for the weekend/holidays. Public transportation is so much shittier here than many other "developed" countries I've lived in. Sucks because I've never owned a car lol.
            • peteretep 11y ago
              I wonder if subsidised petrol also adds to it. It'd be a rare Australian (in my experience) who attempted to regularly drive between major cities (excluding Canberra) - they'd just fly. I also get the impression that air transport in most of the rest of the world is much much more reasonable. AirAsia has made most of Asia pretty accessible, there are a gazillion competing low-cost airlines in Europe, and Australian air travel seems to be cheap enough that I have friends who city hop at weekends without much effort. Of the four continents I've lived for more than a year on, North America and Africa see people taking heroic car journeys, Europe and (South East) Asia much less so. Finally there seems to be a real class divide on public transport. Middle-class Europeans and Asians will jump on a coach, where I don't think any of the Americans I know have every been on a Greyhound bus...
              • devsquid 11y ago
                I have ridden my share of Greyhound's man. They are always very long and if you have a bad driver they are quite scary. Where I went to college, flights were often canceled and cost around 300$ one way. Between cities in the US we do have pretty competitive prices for flights. Cars were definitely the preferred means of transportation and if you car pooled the cheapest. Oddly enough we had an ok bus system, it was pricy but the fare was included in your tuition.
  • xanderstrike 11y ago
    Which is such a strange phenomenon to me. I don't balk at driving ten hours from LA to Redding a couple times a year just to visit family, but that's longer than it takes to drive from Berlin to Paris. If I lived in Europe, I'd be visiting a different country every other weekend.
  • hguant 11y ago
    That's seen as pretty crazy here too. To be fair, there was a point in my life when I was driving 900 miles round trip every other week or so, but that was about a girl, and before I had enough money to take a plane...and looking back I was viewed as crazy by most people for doing so.