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by xcskier56 1058 days ago
In the US, long drives aren’t crazy. This year I’ve done 4 single day drives in excess of 1400km. The furthest I’ve ever driven without stopping was 2500km, but that was with 4 drivers, and I guess a “day” isn’t quite right bc it took us like 27hrs.
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rootusrootus 1058 days ago
750 miles are still fairly rare, as a fraction of all road trips. We'll hear from everybody who does it in this thread, of course, but on average it's definitely an edge case.

However, it doesn't matter, I could do 750 miles a day in my Model 3 just as easily as my gas car. It would be more comfortable in the Tesla, too.

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epolanski 1057 days ago
More comfortable than which other car?

I've driven lots of cars and nothing beats the comfort of a premium German station wagon such as a Mercedes E class for long trips followed by Volvo ones.

A model Y or 3 are in a very different tier of cars.

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rootusrootus 1057 days ago
Everyone likes Volvo, but I continue to find them very underwhelming. Mercedes is good, but they have really fallen behind the other German manufacturers in many ways.

A Model 3 is decidedly in the middle, I'll grant you, but it has adaptive cruise and lane centering, which makes long cruises effortless.

But before I'd take a Mercedes E class or any other station wagon, I'd take an F150 King Ranch ;-). Truly that is the land yacht of the modern era. Inefficient, expensive, but there aren't too many cars more spacious or soft for cruising down the highway. In the US, obv.

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epolanski 1057 days ago
> I'll grant you, but it has adaptive cruise and lane centering, which makes long cruises effortless.

That's all stuff that Mercedes cars have since decades?

The first radar-based dynamic cruise control was implemented on the 1999 W-220 S class. Mercedes cars had lane centering and even automatic lane changing since 2013.

Even today Mercedes is the first and only manufacturer to offer level 3 automatic self driving.

There's lots of things that Mercedes has been doing wrong in years (design wise especially, but engine choices on AMG models have also been questionable lately) but the safety and comfort of their premium cars (E class and upwards) is still at the top end of the industry.

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