What's the Longest Drivable Distance on Earth?

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[computings]

That's the route my dad used to go to school

[vladutcornel]

The longest route is Bucharest Airport to city center, if you take a taxi and you don't speak Romanian.

[derpferdeflusterer]

*to the car salesmen*
"Would you mind if I do a quick test drive?"

[coochieman]

God, he sounds so much more serious than he does now

[SK]

“6 days... it’s not even CLOSE!”
“So what is the longest route?”
“6 AND 19 HOURS!1!!”

[nico]

🤔 so the longest driving road is actually 80% a drive across Russia

[liamweaver]

Would love to see Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May attempt this.

[Calminsky]

Me in Portugal: Would you mind if I do a quick test drive?
(Eight days later when I return to Portugal via plane)
Car salesman: So where is the car?
Me: Oh I parked it right next to the Kim Jong-Un’s statue at the North-Korean/Russian customs checkpoint

[MrDaveUsesWords]

This is useful for the next time I'm in Portugal and I need to go to North Korea.

[mosescuh]

Yeah finally i know how to get from Portugal to North Korea. I have to deal with this problem many times. Dropped a big like

[Oceanatornowk]

I'm really liking this editing style. It flows really well. I look forward to what comes next from this channel.

[Dr.TJ]

There’s a longer one. You can drive from Capetown to Cairo and then Cairo to Khasan Russia crossing the Suez Canal by bridge. They already said bridges were legal at the Panama Canal. There appears to be a problem at Lake Nubia where you have to take a ferry (according to Google maps), but if you go straight at the Al Multaqa cafeteria instead of turning right as Google maps shows, you can stay on the left side of the Nile most of the way and avoid the ferry. This trip would be 14, 099 miles, 5373 miles further than their example. Not good for a premier.

[ellokitty]

OFCOURSE NONE OF THESE PLACES WOULD EXIST WITHOUT SKILLSHARE

[EpicThe]

Oddly if the Korean reunification happens then the longest route would have been Sagres Portugal to Busan South Korea.

[Daxter]

Doctor: u have 6 days 19 hours left

Me : *one final road trip*

[RayMak]

You'll change your life after driving this route

[redz]

On the flat earth you can drive till you fall off.

[efstrix]

I don't remember subscribing to this channel but I smell planes

[mad_bad_cat]

6 days driving = "Not even close." Longest: 6 days and 19 hours.

[todayonthebench]

The route from Pointe-Noire in Kongo to the same place in Russia is actually longer. By 7302 km.... (It also takes 12 days to travel according to Google maps...)
Yes, we "can't" drive from the very tip of Africa due to a ton of rivers without bridges, but that doesn't mean we can't drive from a place very far down in Africa.

Now, we can actually continue for another 5+ thousand km down to Durba in South Africa, this still only uses roads, but it does need us to drive over a road that is part of a residential area. So it is illegal to just drive straight through. (but nothing stops one from visiting someone there and then continuing on the journey. (And yes, Google maps doesn't actually want to use such roads if one just plots down two points on a map, one needs to force it to take the road. (And yes, it took me some time to find this road...)))

So that means that we can technically drive from Durba in South Africa, all the way to Khasan in Russia while only using actual roads, tunnels and bridges. A journey of some 26537 km that according to Google maps will require 14 days and 15 hours of continuous driving.

(Now, this might not actually be a mistake on HAI's part, the video is from late 2017, and I make this comment in 2020.)