dpb wrote:
Doug Miller wrote:
In article . com, "dpb" wrote:

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But I have to mentally compute (by 5/8 for convenient reasonable
approximation) to find out I'm actually only about 62 miles away!

Naaaah. You're an hour away. Drive faster, you get there sooner; slower,
later. Who cares about the distance?
,,,

I guess you didn't take the smiley at face value???

But, strangely enough, some folks _do_ have a yen to know the
distance---from my experience I hypothesis it tends to the folks in
cities and areas which aren't amenable to straight-line navigation
(such as the Eastern US w/ all the windy hills, etc.) that simply
consider distances as time. Being in and from an area that is all laid
off in sections, we navigate by section line and distances are what is
the innate feeling. As my other post notes, it's a case of what one is
familiar with, nothing else...

Yep. Driving measures for me work best in miles as it is more easily
converted from miles to time. Thus if something is 350 miles away I
can pretty well instantly know that driving time will be 6-7 hours.
Used to be before interstates that one could take the distance, divide
by 50 (mph) and come remarkablyi close to the driving time. For me it
still works even on freeways as I don't push as hard as I used to.
Never have found anything using km that works as neatly. Best I can do
is a conversion back to miles and figure it that way although I rarely
bother. I do an annual trip in Canada.

Harry K