Drive Me To The Moon

Boffins from Ordnance Survey team have worked out that if all roads and motorways in Great Britain were grouped together there would more than enough to cover an area the size of Lancashire.

The calculations follows news of the government’s £15bn planned road network investment and the announcement that driverless cars are to be tested in four English cities

The team who work with one of the largest geographic databases in the world that is updated over 10000 times a day has also worked out that if you drove non-stop day and night the entire length of our road network all 215490 miles of it and you travelled at an average speed of 40mph it will take you 224 and a half days.

If you were to attempt this at London’s average speed of 9mph it would take you almost 2 years and 9 months to travel every road in Great Britain. In a driverless car which has an average speed of 11mph the journey would take just under 2 years and 3 months.

Ron Andrews spokesperson for Ordnance Survey says: “We make over 10000 changes a day to the geographic database of Great Britain and are looking forward to recording the new roads and the changes to existing ones that are planned.”

Britain only needs to add another 5363 miles to its road infrastructure to have enough to reach up to the moon when it is at its closest on its elliptical orbit.