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Topic: Texas and OU to where?!?!

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utee94

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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #560 on: August 11, 2021, 07:39:52 PM »
I've driven from Austin to Miami, and from Austin to Los Angeles.

But I've never driven from Miami to Los Angeles. 
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #561 on: August 11, 2021, 07:44:16 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 11, 2021, 07:36:22 PM
Entering Texas from Louisiana on I-10, in the town of Orange, Texas, there's a sign with mileage to El Paso, which is also on I-10.


As a comparison, at the eastern border of what many people (including me) consider to be a very long (E-W) state, one might see a sign like this on I-40.

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Knoxville    67
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #562 on: August 11, 2021, 07:56:27 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 11, 2021, 07:39:52 PM
I've driven from Austin to Miami, and from Austin to Los Angeles.

But I've never driven from Miami to Los Angeles.
Naturally. You don't live in Miami nor Los Angeles...
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #563 on: August 11, 2021, 08:03:17 PM »

Yup, saw that sign this summer.  Houston > Phoenix is a helluva drive.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #564 on: August 11, 2021, 09:26:35 PM »
12 hours will get you from Los Angeles to El Paso. 12 more will get you to... Houston.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #565 on: August 11, 2021, 09:40:56 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on August 11, 2021, 09:26:35 PM
12 hours will get you from Los Angeles to El Paso. 12 more will get you to... Houston.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #566 on: August 12, 2021, 12:48:22 AM »
I drive fast. Especially in west Texas where there's nothing for 100 miles in any direction.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #567 on: August 12, 2021, 01:24:11 AM »
The second time I ever got a car up to 120, was on highway 67 between Fort Stockton and Alpine.

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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #568 on: August 12, 2021, 06:32:29 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on August 11, 2021, 09:26:35 PM
12 hours will get you from Los Angeles to El Paso. 12 more will get you to... Houston.
The Google machine says only like 10 1/2? People must be driving more like you. (Or you’re counting meals).

Also, that’s 70ish fewer miles than Pensacola to Miami. Woof.

(I think the most driving I’ve done in a normalish day was the Bay Area to Flagstaff, only 759 miles. In college we did Madison to Orlando, 1,317 miles, in one shot with drivers rotating. It was awful and I drove all of 40 minutes before nearly killing us, which led to a ban on me driving)
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #569 on: August 12, 2021, 07:49:13 AM »
Speedometers in older cars were inaccurate above about 85 mph and would inflate speeds by quite a bit.

I'd guess they are better in newer cars, have not seen data on that.
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« Reply #570 on: August 12, 2021, 09:11:10 AM »
coming back from a spring break ski trip in Durango, CO, I drove a little over 1,000 miles in about 20 hours to Lincoln, because nearly all of it was during a snowstorm.

Wolf Creek pass was closed so detoured south through Albuquerque
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #571 on: August 12, 2021, 09:12:47 AM »
made the non-stop trip from Round Rock to home many times, only 913 miles
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #572 on: August 12, 2021, 09:38:31 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 12, 2021, 07:49:13 AM
Speedometers in older cars were inaccurate above about 85 mph and would inflate speeds by quite a bit.

I'd guess they are better in newer cars, have not seen data on that.
I can remember the 85 mph speedometers of the '70s and '80s.  They were supposed to deter young drivers from seeing how fast they could go.
Speedometers are mechanical devices.  How would the relationship between rear-axle rotations and the speedometer reading start changing at some high-ish speed?  I'm not arguing that speedometers were accurate above 85, but I am saying that I don't see how that would have worked
An airspeed indicator becoming increasingly inaccurate under various conditions I get.  A speedometer going buggy above 85 I don't get.
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Re: Texas and OU to where?!?!
« Reply #573 on: August 12, 2021, 09:42:24 AM »
I probably did Fort Bragg, NC, to Tulsa, OK, and back a dozen times or so.

1,160 and 17:50 per Google Maps.

It took me about 20 driving hours plus a 2-hour nap in the car at a truck stop in Tennessee.
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