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Re:Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric... by Theodores on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:21PM (#28268598)
In the UK truck drivers:

a break or breaks totalling at least 45 minutes after no more than 4 hours 30 minutes driving

They are professional drivers.

To speed up EV adoption, improve road safety and make an attainable mileage goal for EVs we could use legislation to require a 30 minutes break after three hours of car driving.

This would be unpopular and initially hard to enforce, but if you were in an accident after driving without a break for six hours then you would not do it again as the law would make you the dangerous driver and your insurance would not help.

Trucks have a tachograph, this could be mandated for cars too.

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Re:Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric... by skeletal88 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @07:10PM (#28270621)
Well.. I would say something nasty to you for something so stupid, but I won't.

You want to force everyone to take a 30min break automatically? How about i want to drive somewhere that takes 3h50 ? Or whst if there are more drivers in the car and we can stop for a quick change of drivers? Or.. whatever. I agree that driving without pausing and resting is bad but your solution is worse. It is my car, i should be able to stop whenever i want to, not when some system tells me to.

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Re:Japan is holding back as the world rushes toward electric... by Theodores on Monday August 23, 2021 @06:30AM (#28274034)
On your roads you can do what you like.
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