Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?

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The American way of expressing distances by drive time - what does that include?

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The time is usually an estimate, or the best case scenario in my head. If I have to stop and add more time, I do. But 10 hours is probably what google maps told me it is. I drove straight 9 hours or so once, I think I stopped twice to use the bathroom/get a snack. Got there at 2am. It was rough, wouldn't do it again.

I drove from Albuquerque NM to Tacoma WA in two days by myself. That one was pretty rough.

I generally go off of what the GPS says because time is a blur for me unless I take specific note.

Do you get Highway Hypnosis on such long drives?

Not who you asked, but toward the end of a long drive, absolutely. White line fever becomes a huge risk for me, personally, after 5-6 hours.

For that particular drive I was on Adderall and smoking a lot of weed so hyper focused paranoia prevented that. However, when I was following tail lights at 70mph through the mountains in a downpour and the windshield wiper came off, the pucker factor was very high.