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Although runs appear shorter in the EU, they're still multi-day. Lisbon to Edinburg is a 2000 mile drive. Most drivers kip in their cabs, not at home. IMO it's
by brainwipe 5y ago
Although runs appear shorter in the EU, they're still multi-day. Lisbon to Edinburg is a 2000 mile drive. Most drivers kip in their cabs, not at home.
IMO it's entirely down to the road networks. Driving across the US is like driving across one very broad road network. Driving across Europe is like driving on many fragmented, narrow road networks.
- teknopaul 5y ago[citation needed] Europe has a network of motorways. Last mile is a different story, probably the whole story.
- freeflight 5y agoEurope consists of 44 different countries with sometimes vastly different developed, and funded, infrastructure. There is a big difference between the motorways in a country like the Netherlands vs those in Moldova [0] There is often also vastly different regulations in terms of vehicle safety requirements, and many other differences, the combination of which also leads to quite different per capita traffic deaths [1] [0] https://landgeist.com/2021/09/07/the-best-and-worst-roads-in-europe/ https://landgeist.com/2021/09/07/the-best-and-worst-roads-in... [1] https://www.euronews.com/2018/12/07/which-countries-in-europe-have-the-deadliest-roads https://www.euronews.com/2018/12/07/which-countries-in-europ...