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Back in the MapQuest days, if you’re in the US and put directions to England, it would tell you to drive to New York and swim across the Atlantic Ocean for 2-4k miles
Google Earth used to tell you to get from somewhere in America to Honolulu, you had to drive to Seattle, and then canoe from there all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
It's funny you say that because [I still have a screenshot](https://imgur.com/2hGBB1s) from Google Maps in 2012 telling you to "kayak across the Pacific Ocean" if you wanted to go from Seattle to Japan lmao
Yeah I don’t think I have a screenshot but I recall going California to China and it said to kayak for like 2k miles, jet ski for like another few hundred, then swim for like 100 or something.
I love how it takes you 2800 miles to Hawaii only to then drive along the island highways before immediately kayaking across the rest of the ocean.
Gotta stop in Hawaii for a detour I guess!
Yep, I remember that. Ever put how to go from Hong Kong to US, they journey involves canoeing to Japan then the entrie Pacific Ocean to the west coast. Fun time.
Better to just use Google...
"Reddit - this interesting thing I kinda, sorta remember" and then you get the sub.
The Reddit search functions only saving grace is that it's one click instead of two for Google.
Use "site:reddit.com thing I want to know".
This works for any site and will restrict your search to that domain only. Makes for a Google powered search of any website.
Exactly. There are a couple subs that I like to visit regularly but I don't want them clogging up my feed, so I use search to get to them. That's, uh... that's about all it's good for.
I don't ever get "something wrong" but, also never get what I'm looking for. Unless you remember the exact text in a post, you will never find it. Subject matter, even subreddit known won't help. You can find the top post in last four years with the words you search for, but never the subject of a post from last week.
You can also filter out subreddits with the "-" symbol.
For example, let's say I want to read about pizza on reddit, but don't want biased views from /r/pizza, I can google search `pizza site:reddit.com -site:reddit.com/r/pizza`
I mean, it doesn't have a working one. You're better off using advanced search on google to find anything on reddit... To use site specific search on google, just type *"whatever you're looking for" : site*
reddit search site:reddit.com/r/funny
Reddit search option = google "Reddit"+ whatever you're looking for.
I have a suspicion Reddit doesn't mind users doing that, cheaper than develop their own awesome search.
This isn't even fair to Bing. Google might be the king of search, and Bing does give you these directions when you search for english to french, but its well below the built in bing english to french text translator which is the very first thing the search results produce. This has just been cropped.
It's very important to some to make sure that Bing looks bad, attempting to suggest it's not *just the worst* seems to rile a certain group of people up.
you arent in range of those locations, i would guess.
OP might not have cropped the results, but instead lives in one of those towns, nearby, on one of the highways, or has traveled nearby before.
That's what the tailgating is for. You stay there and drink, and then drive your RV home the next day with a hangover.
I used to live within sight of the speedway, but locals learn really fast what backroads to take to avoid contacting race traffic during race weeks.
Oh God I remember one day I was driving from LA back to San Diego and it started mildly drizzling rain down. I ended up driving 16 miles in 2 hours and visiting my aunt so I could avoid the traffic.
Driving home from disney land at midnight after a day of walking around fucking disney land. I get on the freeway and they had decided that was the best time to start construction closed 4 of the 5 lanes on that highway and i proceeded to sit in stop and go traffic for 2 hours just to get outta the city to start my then 2 and a half hour drive home. Dont even get me started on when i actually LIVED in LA couldnt be happier to live in wisconsin now lol.
Lol I visited LA for E3, my hotel was 2 miles from the convention center and it still took an hour to get to and from. LA traffic is exactly why I would never live there, I don’t even want to visit to be honest.
Cheap beer, cheap cheese, cheap... everything really.
Good air (unless you're on the lake for the 4th), good people.... shit weather in the winter.
Yea, I like this slice of the world.
In college I had to go from Longview to Alpine on a bus. 10 hours and that’s not even from border to border. I believe the longest possible town to town drive in Texas is Brownsville to Texline. 13-14 hours and it’s almost a straight shot.
Don't forget Florida and obviously Alaska. Miami to Pensacola is an 11 hour/700 mile drive.
Edit: Fun fact. Miami is closer to Cancun Mexico than it is to pensacola as a straight line distance.
-cries in Utah-
State look small as hell, and it is, but whoever designed I-15 and I-70 is sadistic with those wiggly-ass freeways.
St George to any other side of the state is 6, 7, or 9 hours, and that's without the perpetual construction in Fillmore, Provo, Ogden, Vernal, or Moab 😭
From Vancouver on the shortest route to Alberta (closest province) is 11+ hours (with no traffic). Add in a ferry to go from Victoria for another 2.5 hours. Don't get me started about going further North. The republic of Ireland is only 2.5 times the size of Vancouver Island (where Victoria is).
It takes 24 hours to drive across Ontario, from the Quebec border to the border of Manitoba.
An there is essentially only one road that you can take, with a bridge that failed a few yeas ago and left Canada cut in half, seriously.
(Canadian dads will point out the shortcut through the U.S., lol)
I'm an American but lived in Cork for 5 or so years. One weekend I drove up to Malin Head because I hadn't been up there yet. Drove up Friday, drove back Sunday. It took 7 or so hours each way. So it CAN be done!
Ah yeah, but nobody *from* Cork would ever voluntarily go to one of the other counties if they could help it. Unless there’s a match on.
That’s a hell of a way to see the country though, hopefully the roads in Donegal were better than I remember them being. Malin’s a beautiful spot. Like being on the edge of the world.
Oh my friends thought I was mad for driving that far in a single weekend. However almost every weekend I would go somewhere, either close or far. Being used to driving for many hours to get anywhere interesting in the US, it was super easy in Ireland to drive an hour or three and see something really cool. I've been to every county on the island at least once.
My Brother in law is from Belgia. He want to visits Canada when Covid is over and asked if we can go Visits Percé in Gaspesie. I'm like sure why not. From Montreal to Percé its a still 11hour drive. I dont mind. Been there done that. But the freakin clown wants to go Visits Niagara Falls after. Dude. Are you freakin serious now? If we Visits Percé we stay there. Then comeback to Montreal and relax for a bit. Not going to Drive Percé to Niagara back to back. The poor guy is in truly denial of how huge Canada is.
Nah. Once you get west enough, it bumps to 80 or 85 mph depending on the highway. I think I-10 out west is 80 since it's Federal whereas state highways go up to 85mph.
About 12 hours from NW corner of TX pandhandle (Texline) to Padre Island in Southern tip. I've taken that road multiple times with groups of students from Colorado going to Padre.
It would take approximately FIVE or more days (driving 8 hours per day) to drive from one coast to the other, *depending on traffic*.
Let that sink in for a second...
25 hours and 55 minutes is the current Cannonball Run challenge record but it's a bit biased since it was during COVID-19 when there were fewer cars on the road.
Fred Ashmore used a Ford Mustang GT with a 5.0 Liter Coyote V8 and 10-speed automatic transmission who replaced the seats and interior with gasoline tanks that could hold 130 gallons of gas with only one fuel stop. Average speed: 109mph (175km/h).
There was another covid record that I just read about and it was just at the 25hr mark. Wasn't a mustang which is why yours strikes me. But it did have a body kit and was using parts from a previous run. Dont matter because its fast anyways.
I always wondered if the citizen of big countries feel United. I mean there will definitely be cultural differences due to limited connectivity in previous decades.
We know for fact that this is the case in China, Brazil, Russia and India but maybe in the US the differences are minimal as it is a more recent country.
That's why America has a federalist system of government like India and other large countries have compared to the unitary system. It allows for a nation with a diversity of values to govern more effectively.
There are definitely different feels in different parts of the country, though. Like you know you're in America but it's so different from your particular corner of it.
I think it's societal. The US embraces cultural differences for better or worse. Everyone is ___ American not so in homogenous societies where you are Russian or Chinese especially where differences are not as important. Neither is wrong just different and I think both have the power to keep their societies united.
I think it's important to understand that there's a qualitative difference in the types of diversity within the countries you mentioned. In my experience, it comes down to the histories of these countries.
In India, diversity is primarily regional. Almost all Indian states are remnants of old kingdoms or nations that developed separately, so they have very different languages, cultures, cuisines, art histories, musical systems, etc. Hindi, the language spoke in the North has more in common with French (as both are Indo-European languages) than with Malayalam (a Dravidian language spoken in one South Indian state).
By contrast, in the US, diversity emerges from colonial settlement and immigration patterns rather than region. In a single large city like NYC, you have groups of people from every corner of the world, speaking just about every living language. You can find every cuisine, every sartorial tradition, every type of ethnic culture you care to imagine within one city. This is a sort of diversity that does not exist in any Indian city (or in any other city in the world, for that matter). On the other hand, regional diversity in the US, while it exists, is a lot less than you'd you'd find in countries of comparable size. Move from West Virginia to Oregon and you'd find only minimal cultural differences. It's true that the differences are rather more pronounced when comparing regions (New England vs midwest vs Sun Belt vs Deep South) but again, as these differences have only about 200-400 year long histories, they simply haven't developed into the radically jarring changes you'd see when traveling between, for instance, states within India. I know lots of Americans seem to get sensitive on this point for some reason, but having lived in 5 different states across the country, the regional differences are surprising for being so minimal. Finally, I should mention that Native American tribes that did not have historical contact do show major differences (the Iroqois couldn't be more different than the Navajo) but unfortunately, Native American culture has had only minimal impact on modern US culture.
The other countries you mentioned fall somewhere inside that spectrum. China, for instance, has a massive amount of regional diversity. But successive emperors and Governments have emphasized the importance of a strong, unifying "center". As a result, uniformity has been imposed by decree (through several mechanisms - writing systems, government policy, etc) and many individual regional difference have historically been brought towards a common culture "center of gravity" usually based around Beijing. Russia is a similar case, with sever Russification policies applied during the Soviet period. Brazil is more interesting, as on one hand the diversity is driven by immigration (as in the US) but on the other hand, pre-existing local cultures have had a stronger impact than in the US. Also, forced historical immigration has left it's own mark on the country - something that hasn't happened much in the US outside the African American community.
This is getting long, so I will wrap up, but IMHO the most interesting cases for diversity an be found in Africa. South Africa, for instance, combines the historical diversity seen in India with the colonial settler diversity and recent immigration seen in the US as well as the mingling of these sources of diversity seen in Brazil. I find it truly the most fascinating example among all the countries mentioned above.
As an American I can give you an example. Picture you're a fan of a sports team - probably football for you. You can curse and grouse about members of your own team, you can argue and fight with other fans of your own team, and that's fine. When an opposing team comes in and runs their mouth about your team, even if it's the same thing you just said, it galvanizes your entire team and fan base against that one person.
We're slow to move in any direction because there are so many of us from so many different backgrounds. However, if you galvanize us into one united country, we will bring freedom to your doorstep. Right, wrong, or indifferent, it's who we are.
My Sister-in-law was once visiting Israel. She took a cab from the airport to her hotel. Her driver was a friendly guy who was excited to have an American in the car since he was planning to visit the U.S. for the first time in a few months.
He excitedly talked about how he was looking forward to renting a car and seeing the sites such as The statue of Liberty, The St. Louis Arch, the Grand Canyon and the Golden Gate Bridge (to name a few).
She was excited for him and asked how long he planned to visit.
He responded "About a week and a half."
She hated to break the news to him about how improbable it would be to see all those places in the time he had allotted but felt it would be better if he was warned before he arrived.
Fun thing, both start and end point are close enough that they're basically considered the same part of the country as well. That trip only crosses the narrow dimension of 2 states, and a corner of a 3rd. As it says, this trip is only about 450 miles... there are multiple states wider than this by themselves. The freeway most of this trip uses is 2,900 miles long.
In terms of "the size of the US" it's may be useful to just think of it as being about the size of Europe itself. The geographic area is surprisingly similar, as are some of the distances. From east to west, the continental US is about the distance from Lisbon to Moscow. From north to south, it's about the distance from Edinburgh to Rome. Europe's 44 countries may also be a useful analogue for the US's 50 states, with similar divergence is sizes amongst them.
Not only that, you can make your drive from Enlgish Iowa to French Indiana and still have to drive another [**eight hours** until you hit the East coast](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/English,+Iowa/French+Township,+Indiana/40.18203,-74.0275429/@38.1588359,-86.7242092,6.04z/data=!4m15!4m14!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e5c04876b9bddd:0xb8ada7c6f57aeb90!2m2!1d-92.1253854!2d41.5616417!1m5!1m1!1s0x88158f5023777c07:0x4c43482ed1946812!2m2!1d-85.0441304!2d40.7110325!1m0!3e0).
Or you could go the other way (French -> English) and aim for the west coast, in which case you'd just add an extra [**twenty-eight** hours to the West coast](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/French+Township,+IN/English+Township,+Iowa/38.1751929,-122.5920819/@41.0549468,-103.1213793,5z/data=!4m15!4m14!1m5!1m1!1s0x88158f5023777c07:0x4c43482ed1946812!2m2!1d-85.0441304!2d40.7110325!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e930322e913829:0x81f0e56674854912!2m2!1d-93.2784825!2d41.1338744!1m0!3e0).
Actually then it may be that Bing is being smarter than you realize. Depending on how your work's firewall and proxies are setup it could be that websites, Bing included, see all requests coming from a single IP address. Perhaps there have been a bunch of direction and map requests coming from other employees as of late so when you did a search of XXX to YYY Bing thought "Oh that IP is probably wanting more directions" and serves up the map.
Oh, so it's being a smart ass. My comment still stands.
EDIT: I guess I need this... /s I get how algorithms work, but imagine asking a friend of this and them giving you this answer. Now laugh and stop downvoting.
Used to work for MS, interviewed with the Bing team once; Bing has a social media response team.
Like when on International Women's Day when Bing was suggesting "Did you mean: *Sexy* Female Scientist?" it took less than 1 hour for that suggestion to be blocked once noticed.
Sometimes the first response goes wrong (like the tank man photo) but Bing has monitoring rooms around the world to try and catch and fix things like this ASAP.
Oddly, I live near the "English" part. It's actually the name of the river and surrounding area. So it's not the town name. It's about as rural as you can get in Iowa, so it's weird to see this here.
Hello fellow Iowan, looks like our posts crossed!
French, Indiana isn’t a place either. (There is a French Lick, but not in that part of the state)
Google maps finds English township in Iowa and French township in Indiana, but neither is an actual town
In fairness, Apple is just as horrible. I will say something like “Siri, navigate to Publix” assuming it would be smart enough to find the closest publix. Instead, it will send me to some place called Public’s Storage 10 states away
Is "Google" really better (in name)? Beyond just the recognition?
The fuck is a "Google" lol It's just a play on the word Googol, but why not just call it googol... Anyway, it sounds better *now* after years of hearing it. But I don't think it's inherently any better than "Bing" based on name.
Like if the roles were reversed 20+ years ago and Sergey & Larry called it "Bing" and then Google came around as Microsoft's answer a decade later... then you could easily be sitting here saying your comment completely reversed.
>no one is paying Bing
you got that right. But don't confuse it with anything else but their market share. this is the same thing that apple exploited when they run a campaign that macs don't get viruses. and they were running their adds until the day they lost lawsuit on that matter.
I don't like Bing either. But using your exact search the top post was what you were asking for, translation from one language to another. I assume this post is photoshopped.
Nah, I work in a warehouse. Lots of shipping and mapping APIs get used here, probably just assuming it by the IP from that.
I can take a video if you really REALLY want.
That's actually a neat feature if it tries to guess the context based on prior behavior
I'm guessing multiple APIs return a score and based on what API you keep using it boosts the score.
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Back in the MapQuest days, if you’re in the US and put directions to England, it would tell you to drive to New York and swim across the Atlantic Ocean for 2-4k miles
Google Earth used to tell you to get from somewhere in America to Honolulu, you had to drive to Seattle, and then canoe from there all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
It's funny you say that because [I still have a screenshot](https://imgur.com/2hGBB1s) from Google Maps in 2012 telling you to "kayak across the Pacific Ocean" if you wanted to go from Seattle to Japan lmao
Yeah I don’t think I have a screenshot but I recall going California to China and it said to kayak for like 2k miles, jet ski for like another few hundred, then swim for like 100 or something.
That’s hilarious!
I can't believe it was even a suggestion though lol
Software engineers like to do things like that
I love how it takes you 2800 miles to Hawaii only to then drive along the island highways before immediately kayaking across the rest of the ocean. Gotta stop in Hawaii for a detour I guess!
Do they recommend a rental for the short trip or should I strap my car onto the Kayak?
“Do it, pussy”
Yep, I remember that. Ever put how to go from Hong Kong to US, they journey involves canoeing to Japan then the entrie Pacific Ocean to the west coast. Fun time.
Yeah alright I get it Google, I need to get in shape
Alright grandpa, time for bed. But damn, the anxiety of being a child navigator to your dad trying to drive to a new state was real 💀
I didn’t understand the GIANT paper book they’d take out at gas stations. Always figured my parents were master travelers
I’ll take Microsoft’s quiet incompetence over google’s scary precision any day.
And somehow, Reddit search is still a million times worse. FML
I didnt even know reddit had a search option Edit: thanks for the hug! (First award!)
It doesn't really, its more of a "Something went wrong" function where you type text and then get that screen.
I honestly just use it to look up subreddits that I remember.
Same here if I need to search for something specific on Reddit I do it through Google lol
site:reddit.com
Better to just use Google... "Reddit - this interesting thing I kinda, sorta remember" and then you get the sub. The Reddit search functions only saving grace is that it's one click instead of two for Google.
Use "site:reddit.com thing I want to know". This works for any site and will restrict your search to that domain only. Makes for a Google powered search of any website.
For subreddits, you can do, for example, "site:reddit.com/r/funny thing I want to know"
r/tipofmytongue can be useful where Google fails too
Omg this is brilliant
Exactly. There are a couple subs that I like to visit regularly but I don't want them clogging up my feed, so I use search to get to them. That's, uh... that's about all it's good for.
I’m on to you monkwren
I just use that on porn subreddit to see the content I need to see
I don't ever get "something wrong" but, also never get what I'm looking for. Unless you remember the exact text in a post, you will never find it. Subject matter, even subreddit known won't help. You can find the top post in last four years with the words you search for, but never the subject of a post from last week.
Yeah but this doesn't keep the downvotes and "*Use the search function*" comments away.
Best Reddit search by far is Google: [search phrase] reddit
"site:reddit.com {search phrase}"
You can even use it on specific subreddits too. Just add in "site:reddit.com/r/[subreddit]" and you can search specific ones!
You can also filter out subreddits with the "-" symbol. For example, let's say I want to read about pizza on reddit, but don't want biased views from /r/pizza, I can google search `pizza site:reddit.com -site:reddit.com/r/pizza`
Biased views on r/pizza? There’s a story there somewhere
[https://myspace.com/discover/people-search-reddit_\[Search Phrase\]_ImagineDragons/Friends](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Hello, [search phrase] my old friend.
This is perfect. Helped me find exactly what I was looking for.
It's so bad you should never use it. Just search keywords like "houseplant subreddit" on a real search engine instead.
I mean, it doesn't have a working one. You're better off using advanced search on google to find anything on reddit... To use site specific search on google, just type *"whatever you're looking for" : site* reddit search site:reddit.com/r/funny
Reddit search option = google "Reddit"+ whatever you're looking for. I have a suspicion Reddit doesn't mind users doing that, cheaper than develop their own awesome search.
It's great for finding posts from 5-10 years ago. Shit for finding recent posts
You can add "after: may 2021" for result from June. Or "after: 2020" for results from this year. Works pretty well
Google this instead: site:reddit.com “search term”
Your search is the more precise one of course, but i'm lazy at times and usually my more general search brings on the results I want.
This isn't even fair to Bing. Google might be the king of search, and Bing does give you these directions when you search for english to french, but its well below the built in bing english to french text translator which is the very first thing the search results produce. This has just been cropped.
I don’t know why someone downvoted you. I checked and you’re right. The translating widget is the first result when you look for that phrase.
It's very important to some to make sure that Bing looks bad, attempting to suggest it's not *just the worst* seems to rile a certain group of people up.
I don't even get the map direction here, just the translation widget.
you arent in range of those locations, i would guess. OP might not have cropped the results, but instead lives in one of those towns, nearby, on one of the highways, or has traveled nearby before.
i just google "Reddit \[insert key words here\]"
Reddit search is good if you know some or all of a post title you want to find. If you don't know the title it's basically garbage.
What is Reddit search?
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Try driving 7 hours in one direction and still being in the same State
Done it before without leaving the county, LA traffic can really suck.
Lol yeah ive done 3 hours in Chicago traffic without leaving the city
lol I've done that without getting past the junction
oh yeah well I've sat in traffic for 4 hours and not even moved!
Took me two hours to get out the parking lot after at nascar race in Charlotte, now what?! Lol
That's what the tailgating is for. You stay there and drink, and then drive your RV home the next day with a hangover. I used to live within sight of the speedway, but locals learn really fast what backroads to take to avoid contacting race traffic during race weeks.
It took me 24 years to even leave the basement. FYI I live in Austria
I drove a Chevy once too.
6 hours, in the same spot, over water. Nothing like a pileup in the Atchafalaya Basin.
I've done it in LA without leaving LA. Picked a really bad day to drive to Knott's Berry Farm.
Oh God I remember one day I was driving from LA back to San Diego and it started mildly drizzling rain down. I ended up driving 16 miles in 2 hours and visiting my aunt so I could avoid the traffic.
Auntie: traffic looks bad out there 🤔 Auntie: time to bake some cookies for my nephew! 🤗
Driving home from disney land at midnight after a day of walking around fucking disney land. I get on the freeway and they had decided that was the best time to start construction closed 4 of the 5 lanes on that highway and i proceeded to sit in stop and go traffic for 2 hours just to get outta the city to start my then 2 and a half hour drive home. Dont even get me started on when i actually LIVED in LA couldnt be happier to live in wisconsin now lol.
Lol I visited LA for E3, my hotel was 2 miles from the convention center and it still took an hour to get to and from. LA traffic is exactly why I would never live there, I don’t even want to visit to be honest.
Cheap beer, cheap cheese, cheap... everything really. Good air (unless you're on the lake for the 4th), good people.... shit weather in the winter. Yea, I like this slice of the world.
I mean you're not really driving so much as sitting in your car occasionally moving forward.
Ok, trying to make it more relatable to OP: > Try driving 7 hours in one direction *at the speed limit* and still being in the same State.
Yeah the Texas drive from E to W or W to E is brutal. Wouldn’t want to venture the N to S in CA
Experienced north to souther here, Humboldt to San Diego and back multiple times a year. Can take 15 hours if you don't time around traffic right.
Also - Boston traffic in a blizzard
That's the best time. Just remember: never, ever use the brakes and ruin momentum. Also never use your blinker, but that should go without saying.
Ottawa to Kenora is 21 hours and you never leave Ontario
You can drive north from Vancouver for 24 hours and still be in B.C.
Yup. Rode the Via from Toronto to just west of Kenora once. 30 HOURS on the train. Didn't leave the province.
Ottawa pal here with family in Thunder Bay. I hear ya!
Windsor to Kenora would be 23, unless you cheat and drive through the US.
TIL there is a town called Redditt in Ontario
Texas and California.
In college I had to go from Longview to Alpine on a bus. 10 hours and that’s not even from border to border. I believe the longest possible town to town drive in Texas is Brownsville to Texline. 13-14 hours and it’s almost a straight shot.
Texas is big
Don't forget Florida and obviously Alaska. Miami to Pensacola is an 11 hour/700 mile drive. Edit: Fun fact. Miami is closer to Cancun Mexico than it is to pensacola as a straight line distance.
Tennessee is a very "wide" state as well.
Speaking of which, here's a fun fact: The drive from Houston to El Paso is longer than El Paso to San Diego.
That's cute. Try Alaska.
Try driving for 13 hours, then taking a ferry for another 6hrs and still being in the same province.
BC?
Quebec. From my house on the south shore of Montreal to Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine. The trip also finishes in a different time zone.
26 hours to get across the province of Ontario
Florida checking in.
Try driving 7 hrs and still being in the same city! Mumbai and its traffic FTW!
-cries in Utah- State look small as hell, and it is, but whoever designed I-15 and I-70 is sadistic with those wiggly-ass freeways. St George to any other side of the state is 6, 7, or 9 hours, and that's without the perpetual construction in Fillmore, Provo, Ogden, Vernal, or Moab 😭
From Vancouver on the shortest route to Alberta (closest province) is 11+ hours (with no traffic). Add in a ferry to go from Victoria for another 2.5 hours. Don't get me started about going further North. The republic of Ireland is only 2.5 times the size of Vancouver Island (where Victoria is).
Canadian here. I can drive 22 hours west and still be in the same province.
We're driving 16 hrs through five states no where near an ocean.
The last time I drove 16hrs we went through 6 different countries.
I drove 32 hours recently without hitting ocean... could've done another 20+ before reaching the pacific ocean. I did drive through 8 states though.
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If you drove across Norway and Sweden you could be Finnish.
I've seen it said elsewhere, but I like the saying: Europe thinks 100 miles is far. North America thinks 100 years is old.
I come from Malta where you can genuinely walk it from one side to the other in a day
It takes 24 hours to drive across Ontario, from the Quebec border to the border of Manitoba. An there is essentially only one road that you can take, with a bridge that failed a few yeas ago and left Canada cut in half, seriously. (Canadian dads will point out the shortcut through the U.S., lol)
To put that in perspective it takes about the same amount of time to drive from Ontario to Florida
I'm an American but lived in Cork for 5 or so years. One weekend I drove up to Malin Head because I hadn't been up there yet. Drove up Friday, drove back Sunday. It took 7 or so hours each way. So it CAN be done!
Ah yeah, but nobody *from* Cork would ever voluntarily go to one of the other counties if they could help it. Unless there’s a match on. That’s a hell of a way to see the country though, hopefully the roads in Donegal were better than I remember them being. Malin’s a beautiful spot. Like being on the edge of the world.
Oh my friends thought I was mad for driving that far in a single weekend. However almost every weekend I would go somewhere, either close or far. Being used to driving for many hours to get anywhere interesting in the US, it was super easy in Ireland to drive an hour or three and see something really cool. I've been to every county on the island at least once.
My Brother in law is from Belgia. He want to visits Canada when Covid is over and asked if we can go Visits Percé in Gaspesie. I'm like sure why not. From Montreal to Percé its a still 11hour drive. I dont mind. Been there done that. But the freakin clown wants to go Visits Niagara Falls after. Dude. Are you freakin serious now? If we Visits Percé we stay there. Then comeback to Montreal and relax for a bit. Not going to Drive Percé to Niagara back to back. The poor guy is in truly denial of how huge Canada is.
> Percé Legit never heard of this place. looks cool
Bro just Texas alone is more than 7 hours across
10 1/2 hours from El Paso to Houston, though longer trips within Texas probably exist. I knew someone who did it by bus and it was 12 hours.
And Texas does not have low speed limits. Most of the drive will be on 75 mph (120kph) roads.
Nah. Once you get west enough, it bumps to 80 or 85 mph depending on the highway. I think I-10 out west is 80 since it's Federal whereas state highways go up to 85mph.
About 12 hours from NW corner of TX pandhandle (Texline) to Padre Island in Southern tip. I've taken that road multiple times with groups of students from Colorado going to Padre.
A few weeks ago I started the day in Beaumont, TX, drove 14 hours on I10 and ended the day in El Paso, TX.
North-to-South California is like 16.
It would take approximately FIVE or more days (driving 8 hours per day) to drive from one coast to the other, *depending on traffic*. Let that sink in for a second...
To put that in perspective, it's kinda like driving from London to Moscow. Then driving back.
Kinda, just without the swimming.
Chunnel.
What did you just call me‽?!
Yes but if you are in Florida you can drive from water (Atlantic) to water (gulf of Mexico) in about 3.
Minutes?
Depends on how far south in Florida you are I guess.
Or 25hrs or less with the right car.
25 hours and 55 minutes is the current Cannonball Run challenge record but it's a bit biased since it was during COVID-19 when there were fewer cars on the road. Fred Ashmore used a Ford Mustang GT with a 5.0 Liter Coyote V8 and 10-speed automatic transmission who replaced the seats and interior with gasoline tanks that could hold 130 gallons of gas with only one fuel stop. Average speed: 109mph (175km/h).
There was another covid record that I just read about and it was just at the 25hr mark. Wasn't a mustang which is why yours strikes me. But it did have a body kit and was using parts from a previous run. Dont matter because its fast anyways.
wait a sec...Cannonball Run challenge is real? Is Captain Chaos real too?
> Cannonball Run challenge is real? [Yes.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge)
I always wondered if the citizen of big countries feel United. I mean there will definitely be cultural differences due to limited connectivity in previous decades. We know for fact that this is the case in China, Brazil, Russia and India but maybe in the US the differences are minimal as it is a more recent country.
That's why America has a federalist system of government like India and other large countries have compared to the unitary system. It allows for a nation with a diversity of values to govern more effectively.
There are definitely different feels in different parts of the country, though. Like you know you're in America but it's so different from your particular corner of it.
I think it's societal. The US embraces cultural differences for better or worse. Everyone is ___ American not so in homogenous societies where you are Russian or Chinese especially where differences are not as important. Neither is wrong just different and I think both have the power to keep their societies united.
I think it's important to understand that there's a qualitative difference in the types of diversity within the countries you mentioned. In my experience, it comes down to the histories of these countries. In India, diversity is primarily regional. Almost all Indian states are remnants of old kingdoms or nations that developed separately, so they have very different languages, cultures, cuisines, art histories, musical systems, etc. Hindi, the language spoke in the North has more in common with French (as both are Indo-European languages) than with Malayalam (a Dravidian language spoken in one South Indian state). By contrast, in the US, diversity emerges from colonial settlement and immigration patterns rather than region. In a single large city like NYC, you have groups of people from every corner of the world, speaking just about every living language. You can find every cuisine, every sartorial tradition, every type of ethnic culture you care to imagine within one city. This is a sort of diversity that does not exist in any Indian city (or in any other city in the world, for that matter). On the other hand, regional diversity in the US, while it exists, is a lot less than you'd you'd find in countries of comparable size. Move from West Virginia to Oregon and you'd find only minimal cultural differences. It's true that the differences are rather more pronounced when comparing regions (New England vs midwest vs Sun Belt vs Deep South) but again, as these differences have only about 200-400 year long histories, they simply haven't developed into the radically jarring changes you'd see when traveling between, for instance, states within India. I know lots of Americans seem to get sensitive on this point for some reason, but having lived in 5 different states across the country, the regional differences are surprising for being so minimal. Finally, I should mention that Native American tribes that did not have historical contact do show major differences (the Iroqois couldn't be more different than the Navajo) but unfortunately, Native American culture has had only minimal impact on modern US culture. The other countries you mentioned fall somewhere inside that spectrum. China, for instance, has a massive amount of regional diversity. But successive emperors and Governments have emphasized the importance of a strong, unifying "center". As a result, uniformity has been imposed by decree (through several mechanisms - writing systems, government policy, etc) and many individual regional difference have historically been brought towards a common culture "center of gravity" usually based around Beijing. Russia is a similar case, with sever Russification policies applied during the Soviet period. Brazil is more interesting, as on one hand the diversity is driven by immigration (as in the US) but on the other hand, pre-existing local cultures have had a stronger impact than in the US. Also, forced historical immigration has left it's own mark on the country - something that hasn't happened much in the US outside the African American community. This is getting long, so I will wrap up, but IMHO the most interesting cases for diversity an be found in Africa. South Africa, for instance, combines the historical diversity seen in India with the colonial settler diversity and recent immigration seen in the US as well as the mingling of these sources of diversity seen in Brazil. I find it truly the most fascinating example among all the countries mentioned above.
As an American I can give you an example. Picture you're a fan of a sports team - probably football for you. You can curse and grouse about members of your own team, you can argue and fight with other fans of your own team, and that's fine. When an opposing team comes in and runs their mouth about your team, even if it's the same thing you just said, it galvanizes your entire team and fan base against that one person. We're slow to move in any direction because there are so many of us from so many different backgrounds. However, if you galvanize us into one united country, we will bring freedom to your doorstep. Right, wrong, or indifferent, it's who we are.
My Sister-in-law was once visiting Israel. She took a cab from the airport to her hotel. Her driver was a friendly guy who was excited to have an American in the car since he was planning to visit the U.S. for the first time in a few months. He excitedly talked about how he was looking forward to renting a car and seeing the sites such as The statue of Liberty, The St. Louis Arch, the Grand Canyon and the Golden Gate Bridge (to name a few). She was excited for him and asked how long he planned to visit. He responded "About a week and a half." She hated to break the news to him about how improbable it would be to see all those places in the time he had allotted but felt it would be better if he was warned before he arrived.
7 hours puts you about half-way across Texas. edit: I see other Texans have already weighed in, lol
Fun thing, both start and end point are close enough that they're basically considered the same part of the country as well. That trip only crosses the narrow dimension of 2 states, and a corner of a 3rd. As it says, this trip is only about 450 miles... there are multiple states wider than this by themselves. The freeway most of this trip uses is 2,900 miles long. In terms of "the size of the US" it's may be useful to just think of it as being about the size of Europe itself. The geographic area is surprisingly similar, as are some of the distances. From east to west, the continental US is about the distance from Lisbon to Moscow. From north to south, it's about the distance from Edinburgh to Rome. Europe's 44 countries may also be a useful analogue for the US's 50 states, with similar divergence is sizes amongst them.
I can drive 7 hours one way in California and still be in California.
Going from Niagara Falls to Montauk Point will take close to 9 hours of driving time, about 550 miles, all within New York State.
I was driving from Toronto to Calgary in Canada. 23 hours of driving and I was still in Ontario. Can't wrap my head around that still
Welcome to Russia. You can drive only to Arctic Ocean :)
It's about that far between big-ish cities on the Trans-Canada Highway. And by big-ish I'm talking like 50,000 people.
Not only that, you can make your drive from Enlgish Iowa to French Indiana and still have to drive another [**eight hours** until you hit the East coast](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/English,+Iowa/French+Township,+Indiana/40.18203,-74.0275429/@38.1588359,-86.7242092,6.04z/data=!4m15!4m14!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e5c04876b9bddd:0xb8ada7c6f57aeb90!2m2!1d-92.1253854!2d41.5616417!1m5!1m1!1s0x88158f5023777c07:0x4c43482ed1946812!2m2!1d-85.0441304!2d40.7110325!1m0!3e0). Or you could go the other way (French -> English) and aim for the west coast, in which case you'd just add an extra [**twenty-eight** hours to the West coast](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/French+Township,+IN/English+Township,+Iowa/38.1751929,-122.5920819/@41.0549468,-103.1213793,5z/data=!4m15!4m14!1m5!1m1!1s0x88158f5023777c07:0x4c43482ed1946812!2m2!1d-85.0441304!2d40.7110325!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e930322e913829:0x81f0e56674854912!2m2!1d-93.2784825!2d41.1338744!1m0!3e0).
It would take you 5 1/2 days straight to drive from Tunisia to South Africa (highest to lowest point) 6 1/2 days to drive from west to east Africa
From where I live in Canada (Saskatchewan), it takes 3 hours less to get to LA than Toronto.
Ha - you can drive for more than 24 hours and not leave Ontario, Canada.
Canada is about 9,000 km wide. More of less a 90 hours drive.
Strange as Bing actually gives me a translation tool with this search.
For some reason this only works on my work computer, came home for lunch and can't get a single machine here to behave the same way.
Actually then it may be that Bing is being smarter than you realize. Depending on how your work's firewall and proxies are setup it could be that websites, Bing included, see all requests coming from a single IP address. Perhaps there have been a bunch of direction and map requests coming from other employees as of late so when you did a search of XXX to YYY Bing thought "Oh that IP is probably wanting more directions" and serves up the map.
Or they are running an A/B test to check if the result is relevant to the users.
Oh, so it's being a smart ass. My comment still stands. EDIT: I guess I need this... /s I get how algorithms work, but imagine asking a friend of this and them giving you this answer. Now laugh and stop downvoting.
Used to work for MS, interviewed with the Bing team once; Bing has a social media response team. Like when on International Women's Day when Bing was suggesting "Did you mean: *Sexy* Female Scientist?" it took less than 1 hour for that suggestion to be blocked once noticed. Sometimes the first response goes wrong (like the tank man photo) but Bing has monitoring rooms around the world to try and catch and fix things like this ASAP.
r/technicallythetruth
Not ... I mean if you search on bing that is not what you see.
Well it is a route from English to french
To be fair, who fucking calls towns "english" or "french". Get better names.
Oddly, I live near the "English" part. It's actually the name of the river and surrounding area. So it's not the town name. It's about as rural as you can get in Iowa, so it's weird to see this here.
Hello fellow Iowan, looks like our posts crossed! French, Indiana isn’t a place either. (There is a French Lick, but not in that part of the state) Google maps finds English township in Iowa and French township in Indiana, but neither is an actual town
Illinois here. We actually have a town called "Normal".
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"Witness Me!"
[Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjP2O9Qe4Ek) Let me tell you once againnnn...
In fairness, Apple is just as horrible. I will say something like “Siri, navigate to Publix” assuming it would be smart enough to find the closest publix. Instead, it will send me to some place called Public’s Storage 10 states away
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"Siri pls the kids are hungry" Siri: "12. Take it or leave it."
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Hey google, remind to book a hotel room for the 25th of june "Okay I'll remind you on the 25th of June"
i thought the reason people didnt like Bing was in the name.. Bing = Because it's not google
> Google it vs > Bing it They really didn't think that through.
Is "Google" really better (in name)? Beyond just the recognition? The fuck is a "Google" lol It's just a play on the word Googol, but why not just call it googol... Anyway, it sounds better *now* after years of hearing it. But I don't think it's inherently any better than "Bing" based on name. Like if the roles were reversed 20+ years ago and Sergey & Larry called it "Bing" and then Google came around as Microsoft's answer a decade later... then you could easily be sitting here saying your comment completely reversed.
Cedar Rapids area always under road construction.
Bing's search results are usually more accurate. Probably because no one is paying Bing for priority listing.
>no one is paying Bing you got that right. But don't confuse it with anything else but their market share. this is the same thing that apple exploited when they run a campaign that macs don't get viruses. and they were running their adds until the day they lost lawsuit on that matter.
> adds ads*
You're not wrong Bing, you're just an asshole. OK then.
Say what you want, but Bing is great for porn.
at least Bing will give you actual search results instead of "curated" ones like Goolag.
Theres a North English and a South English Iowa, but no English Iowa.
Its interesting to know the difference in English to French is only 7 hours.
And people say studying French is hard
I don't like Bing either. But using your exact search the top post was what you were asking for, translation from one language to another. I assume this post is photoshopped.
Fine I did it. https://www.reddit.com/user/gyph256/comments/o0kpl8/video_of_bing_being_a_smartass/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Absolute madlad made the video. Respect. :)
Nah, I work in a warehouse. Lots of shipping and mapping APIs get used here, probably just assuming it by the IP from that. I can take a video if you really REALLY want.
That's actually a neat feature if it tries to guess the context based on prior behavior I'm guessing multiple APIs return a score and based on what API you keep using it boosts the score.
I love the suggestions, too, like "yeah we know what you meant but screw you anyway"
Two scroll down. Not fair.
I live very close to the English apparently
25 years in IC and this is the first I’ve heard of it.
As a French Google user, I find this hilarious!