How long can you drive continuously?

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surrounded by big-rigs doing 80.

I drove to Bayonne, NJ once in the middle of the night and at 90-100MPH,
the bumper to bumper tractor/trailers were blowing by like I was sitting
still and I was the only car on the road. That was back in '86, haven't
been back there since.

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Mac Cool

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:17:50 -0800 (PST), Richard Fangnail
wrote:

I can drive about 75 minutes on the freeway before I really need to
rest. My rear starts hurting ,and isn't it bad for a car to drive so
long over 60MPH with no slowing at all?

My car has always worked okay but perhaps I should "rest" it every
hour or so. I sometimes drive from SF to LA which takes six hours.

I have a bad back and bad knees but I normally drive 3-4 hours without
stopping. Sometimes longer. My wife and I usually split the driving
now but the furthest I ever drove by myself in one day was about 950
miles.

On 10 Dec 2007 03:07:50 GMT, Mac Cool wrote:


I drove to Bayonne, NJ once in the middle of the night and at 90-100MPH,
the bumper to bumper tractor/trailers were blowing by like I was sitting
still and I was the only car on the road. That was back in '86, haven't
been back there since.

I remember many years that a friend was driving and we were going from
DC to CT late at night. We got over the GW bridge and he was doing
80-85 on the Cross Bronx just after the bridge. There were 3 trucks in
front of us, one on each side and 3 in back. And the truck in back of
us kept honking his horn and flashing his lights. We couldn't imagine
what he thought we could do.

Theres a story in the current issue of Wired about breaking the
stealth
"Cannonball record" which stood at 32 hours for a cross-country drive
averaging the high 80s-mph. Supposedly roads are better patrolled
than the 1970s and this has been hard to do. But the new contenders
make use of computer maps to avoid speed traps, find quick gas
stations, etc.
You have to read the interesting article to find how it turned out.

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:45:30 -0800 (PST), "rick++"
wrote:

Theres a story in the current issue of Wired about breaking the
stealth
"Cannonball record" which stood at 32 hours for a cross-country drive
averaging the high 80s-mph. Supposedly roads are better patrolled
than the 1970s and this has been hard to do. But the new contenders
make use of computer maps to avoid speed traps, find quick gas
stations, etc.
You have to read the interesting article to find how it turned out.

I can't imagine averaging that high going coast to coast. I recently
heard just the end of a story about someone trying to drive cross
country very fast. I heard some state trooper talking about 140 mph.