How long can you drive continuously?

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.

In article <e93abbf6-8469-4561-8364-d0343de5a691
@s19g2000prg.************.com>, richardfangnail@excite.com says...
> 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?

No, a car should run for days at well over 60MPH, with no "rest". It
may be vary bad for you if you can't sit for an hour without our rear
hurting though. You might want to see a doctor to find out why.

> 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.

Cars don't need rest. Normal people don't need that much either. I
can drive 12 hours with three or four ten minute rest stops, alone,
with no problems. When I was younger I'd go much longer. Anymore,
I'd rather have another driver to switch with, since my eyes get
tired.

--
Keith

"krw" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
news:MPG.21c399bcb11952c698abb1@news.individual.ne t...
> In article <e93abbf6-8469-4561-8364-d0343de5a691
> @s19g2000prg.************.com>, richardfangnail@excite.com says...
> > 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?
>
> No, a car should run for days at well over 60MPH, with no "rest". It
> may be vary bad for you if you can't sit for an hour without our rear
> hurting though. You might want to see a doctor to find out why.
>
> > 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.
>
> Cars don't need rest. Normal people don't need that much either. I
> can drive 12 hours with three or four ten minute rest stops, alone,
> with no problems. When I was younger I'd go much longer. Anymore,
> I'd rather have another driver to switch with, since my eyes get
> tired.
>

You can always close them for a bit. :-)

Richard Fangnail:

> I can drive about 75 minutes on the freeway before I really need to
> rest. My rear starts hurting

Why, do you have 'roids or something? I think that's what those donut
shaped cushions are for, maybe you should get one.

> and isn't it bad for a car to drive so
> long over 60MPH with no slowing at all?

Not unless it's a piece of junk.

> 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.

Maybe you need a more comfortable car, then you might not need to stop so
often.

--
Mac Cool

On Dec 7, 1:17 pm, Richard Fangnail <richardfangn...@excite.com>
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?

Of course not. Why would you think that? In fact, if you're going a
fairly constant speed, that's probably the easiest job your car will
ever have, short of sitting in your garage.

> Richard Fangnail wrote
>
> I can drive about 75 minutes on the freeway before I really need
> to rest.

I like driving and would rather be the driver then a passenger
but a couple of years ago when I drove 10 hrs from Detroit
to Reading Pennsylvania, (stopping only for gas) I discovered
that was about 2 hrs more then I could take.

Had I stopped for an hour or so, I probably could have gone
for another 3-4 hours but I'd say an important consideration
is the type of road one of driving on.

On a reasonably flat and straight highway without too much
traffic, driving is easy but on twisty-turny mountain roads like
those in Penn, it becomes much harder and greatly limits the
amount of time one can spend behind the wheel.

In article <a7c60d33-7b4e-4dfe-bcaa-f28a12492790
@o6g2000hsd.************.com>, estasiak@att.net says...
> > Richard Fangnail wrote
> >
> > I can drive about 75 minutes on the freeway before I really need
> > to rest.
>
> I like driving and would rather be the driver then a passenger
> but a couple of years ago when I drove 10 hrs from Detroit
> to Reading Pennsylvania, (stopping only for gas) I discovered
> that was about 2 hrs more then I could take.
>
> Had I stopped for an hour or so, I probably could have gone
> for another 3-4 hours but I'd say an important consideration
> is the type of road one of driving on.
>
> On a reasonably flat and straight highway without too much
> traffic, driving is easy but on twisty-turny mountain roads like
> those in Penn, it becomes much harder and greatly limits the
> amount of time one can spend behind the wheel.

I find the opposite. Twisty-turny roads keep me awake. Straight-
flat Interstate roads get monotonous.

--
Keith

Usenet2007@THE-DOMAIN-IN.SIG:

> 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.

--
Mac Cool

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:17:50 -0800 (PST), Richard Fangnail
<richardfangnail@excite.com> 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 <Mac@2cool.com> 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.