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İstanbul as the capital on a map community in the big 26 🥀
Istanbul is not a capital city. Capital of Turkey is Ankara. Obligatory: Erdogan is a fucking twat
btw, Constantinople¹ is also not the capital. Why they changed it, though, I can't say.
¹ nople
Its nobodies business but the Turks.
I mean,
even old New York was once New Amsterdam
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No german city pictured because infinite -10% is still infinite
i mean there's still a limit to how fast your car will physically go, can't imagine many cars are happy pulling 200km/h
The suggested speed on the Autobahn is still 130 km/h. If you're going significantly faster and cause an accident, your insurance will probably consider you at fault and only cover what they're (edit: legally) obligated to.
Why would any insurance company pay more than they are obligated to?
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I drive in Germany sometimes and the roads are too busy to be going very fast, my average never got much higher than 150 km/h even if you only count the fastest portions. To be fair I haven't tried crossing the country starting on a Sunday at 3 AM, you can probably go as fast as is efficient to not waste time on extra refuelling because of the car's drag.
Much of the Autobahn does have limits though :)
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Now let’s see one by train from those same cities.
Here's a rough equivalent of the OPs image, but with trains
That’s surprisingly specific.
London to Dublin, Ireland in 7 hrs??
There's a ferry
By the way: This "how far can I get from a specific point within time xy?" is called isochrones.
Very interesting when you move somewhere and want to know what's in range.
Do a lot of Europeans stay 10% under the speed limit? Because that sure as hell ain't the case in America.
I think its to calculate with the likely stops you are going to take during the journey
In my experience, travelling ~90km/h most of the time but adhering to local limits, stop signs, etc. drags you down to the average ~60km/h speed all throughout the route.
As for going 120km/h on the highway, you still effectively get around 80-100km/h average speed.
10% down is extremely optimistic
In Portugal speed limits are treated as suggestions.
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Do that in Australia and you're possibly in the next state
Now do public transport (not @ OP, just stating a desire for a railway+bus+foot alternative
you wont believe it : https://sopuli.xyz/post/35479366
The US rail system is really sparse, huh
that isn't including time; I understand that layovers make it hard, but they are important for comparing cars to public transit
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What's with this Mercator projection? GB is giant.
I didn't catch that. Spain is twice as big as the UK, for example, and about 30% larger than Germany or 40% larger than Poland, or 12.5 times larger than Denmark, which looks like a 1/4 or 1/5 the size.
It seems about right, I've done the trip from Barcelona to Madrid, it took six hours.
~~Istanbul is not a capital...~~ someone already said it.
Get in loser we are invading Belarus!
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TIL about the channel tunnel!
yeah it's neat but you don't technically drive through it. You get the car on a train. Still cool though.
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