Lol I just drove 14 hours one way for thxgiving. Waiting 30+ min every 250 miles is a deal breaker… I can gas and piss in less than ten min once every 400 miles. You’d add like 5 hours to that drive at least. Just waiting for charges.
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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 1 year agoI’m not sure I agree. Lots of EVs have a 250+ mile range. I’d need a 30 minute break after driving that kind of distance.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean, you just drove, 800 miles in one day? Youre an extreme outlier, seeing as most people drive around 40.
Assumeing 3 stops, you already waited around 30 min on that trip, but youre saying 90 makes it impossible for you? That extra 1hr makes your 14hr one way trip untenable when you do it once a year? That 15 is the dealbreaker over a 14?
capital@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People don’t want to hear stuff like that but it is a real disadvantage.
And I own an EV.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My wife thinks I’m insane, but my whole family is built where we would drive 10+ hours (710miles~) a couple times a year with only 1 stop at mile like 500 for fuel and a snack. Otherwise we’d just keep going. Some people don’t need a break for a LOOOONNNNGGGG time when driving. Of my friend group (20th people) on road trips only 2/3 need stops every so often. Even my wife has adjusted to my driving nature.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’d be really interested to see the results of response time testing on drives that long. You might be highly anomalous but most people begin to suffer significant attention and reaction penalties after around an hour that get steadily worse.
I know that when I try do multitask testing (a significant part of driving) after 2 hours of continuous driving my results are like 50% of freshly rested. I’d be surprised if you were anywhere capable of navigating an emergency reliably after 4 hours.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 1 year ago
🤔 most of us in my family LOVE driving. Usually when we even needed to think/decompress or just have fun we would hop in a car and just drive. So I’m definitely more in a minority on that front. I suspect we’re just “drivers” compared to others. I just think more people can go more than 250 miles without stopping. It probably also helps that 3 of 4 of us have some level of adhd (medical diag). I think for us driving gives our monkey brain something to do. Like meditation, but worse for the environment. 😅
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
You really should try testing yourself though. You might be endangering your own and other people’s lives.
Try some stuff like memory, attention, and dual n back before and after (make sure to train for a bit and discard those results to avoid training effects)
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s not really about how much you like driving