Driving every mapped road in the lower 48 at light speed takes just 38 seconds
randal_olson · x · 2026-11-16
Based on OpenStreetMap data, the lower 48 US states contain about 7.1 million miles of mapped road — nearly 30 times the distance to the Moon. Traversing all of it at the speed of light would take only 38 seconds.
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