Road Trip notes

[den]

If you're planning a road trip around the circumference of your country, don't forget to go anti-clockwise in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and clockwise around the US, Canada and other wrong-side-of-the-road countries.

Why? It's shorter.

Comments

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

are you sure this isn't something to do with the coreolis thingy?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

No. You're on the inside lane.

[stellarized.livejournal.com]

dare I say...
I love how your mind works? ^_^


Crazy different-directional lanes around the world,lol
Always have to be such a hassel ;P

(Puts a petition out that America needs to stop doing things differently, and drive the English way of driving instead,lol ^_-)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Technically, you Yanks drive on the correct side since that's the way the Germans do it, and the fist car *was* a Benz.

I heard the English changed because it was proper to mount a horse or carriage from the left, so the passengers "mounted" the car (ie, a horseless carriage) from the left off the footpath.

and I don't know why I think about things like this. I just do.

*just curious*

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

Has anybody bothered to measure how much shorter, and how much cheaper/fuel-efficient?

Spot estimation

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Assume the continental United States (since I know its approximate size offhand) is a circle, and has a road around its outer perimeter. Its radius would be about 1,200 miles. A road lane is about ten feet wide, or 1/500 of a mile, so driving on the inside lane instead of the outside lane would be a circle with a radius of 1,199.998 miles.

Circumference is pi * 2r, so c(outer)=2400*pi and c(inner)=2399.996*pi, and their difference is .004*pi miles, about .012 miles. At today's gas prices, in my economy car, this is about one-fifteenth of a cent (or $37.22 Canadian, eh).

HTH!

Re: *just curious*

[bobbain.livejournal.com]

den has forgotten to take into account detours and bottlenecks.