Tag: driving

  • Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range

    Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range

    Reading Time: < 1 minute 960km range For a brief instance I saw that I had a 960km range with the car. It was brief because as soon as I accelerated above a certain speed the reading went down to a normal reading. It would have been nice to have such a long range for…

  • The Desire for a Road Trip

    The Desire for a Road Trip

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost every time I get into the car I wish I was going on a road trip. I wish I was driving from point A to point B and that the drive would take hours, rather than minutes. As much as I hate “commuting” between point A and point B on…

  • The Absurdity of Driving Culture

    The Absurdity of Driving Culture

    Reading Time: 4 minutes For a long time I thought that driving would give me freedom. I was impatient to be old enough to drive, and then I was impatient to pass my driving test. I failed the theory three times in Switzerland, zero in England, and the practical in England once, and once in…

  • A Walking Decline in the US Since 2019

    A Walking Decline in the US Since 2019

    Reading Time: 5 minutes According to streetlight data walking in the US has declined over the past three or four years. The decline was by up to thirty six percent from 2019-2022. The clearest reason for this is that 2019 and 2020 were walking honeymoon periods. By this I mean that for the duration of…

  • The Amplified Case for Car Free Cycling and Walking Routes

    The Amplified Case for Car Free Cycling and Walking Routes

    Reading Time: 3 minutes In the near future we may see many more self-driving cars from many different manufacturers. If this is the case then we should think about reducing the number of roads and lanes devoted to cars. As robots drive cars, rather than humans so safety distances no longer need to exist, because…

  • Driving in the rain

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday i drove through the rain for two hours at night and it was so demanding that i stopped the audiobook to focus on driving. It was harder to see the lines, and the rain was heavy enough to impact visibility. I made it but i would think twice about…

  • Tomorrow I Have The Long Drive

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Tomorrow I have the long drive. For 12 hours or so I will be driving the car with few stops and plenty of time to daydream.

  • Apple Car Play and Roaming

    Apple Car Play and Roaming

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Several years ago I needed to download TomTom and I needed the latest map updates if I wanted to drive from Switzerland to England or from Switzerland to France, or to Spain. Thanks to roaming I now have a much broader choice. TomTom was good in another era, when we had…

  • Trip Desire

    Trip Desire

    Reading Time: 2 minutes This morning I found that I did have trip desire after all. As I drove out of a village towards the East I found that I had this desire. I did want to go for a long drive, and go on a trip. It has been January 2019 that I haven’t…

  • Looking Back In Time

    Looking Back In Time

    Reading Time: 2 minutes For a few days now I’ve been looking through thousands of pictures to make sure that they’re synced from iCloud to the Photo app before they’re deleted. In so doing I noticed how far in front of a group I was hiking a few years ago. Instead of hiking with the…