OT: Silly philosophical quiz

Dec 08, 2020 Last reply: 5 years ago 7 Replies

Describe mathematically/logically why the following cannot be done:


1 driver and 1 car are in London.
1 car is in Glasgow. Get both cars in London along with the driver. You may not use other vehicles/people/public transport. You are not a super fit athlete that wishes to walk or run that far.

This is a real world problem - someone buying a new car privately.


You may be correct. I live in a golden past when cars had real frames and real bumpers and you could clamp a tow bar to the bumper.

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That's exactly the type I used some years ago, along with a tow bar like these

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And I did not need anybody to steer the towed car. It tracked behind just fine. 1200 miles from IL to TX.

1 car is in Glasgow . Doesn't say it is a third hand 'heap' .

I didn't say that it was, and the original description in the OP didn't say that it wasn't. Serious lack of information about why it might be impossible.

Actually not easy. When I last looked for £500 or less cars here, there were only three, and all of them were 25 miles away.

Anything is cheaper than a train. It costs me less to drive almost the full length of the UK in my car than to get a train. Since trains are presumably subsidised, this indicates they're a very inefficient means of transport. In fact I read something once (probably on top Gear) that a train that's fully occupied uses more diesel than a car for each individual passenger. They're just so damn heavy they waste fuel.

Anything in Glasgow is obviously a heap.

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