Miles driven

If you drive on average of 30 miles a week, after 60 years you drove 93,600 miles. You would still need to drive over 146,000 more miles to reach the Moon, at a distance of approximately 240,000 miles from us.

Time spent at gas stations

If you spend on average five minutes filling your car up once a week, after 50 years you spent almost 217 hours at gas stations.

Starting your car

If you start your car twice a day and live until 80 years old, you started your car 58,400 times.

Line those tires up

How many tires lined up according to their size would it take to reach one mile? Lined up is the same way they are on a car.

13 inches, you need 4,874 tires
14 inches, you need 4,526 tires
15 inches, you need 4,224 tires
16 inches, you need 3,960 tires
17 inches, you need 3,727 tires
18 inches, you need 3,520 tires
19 inches, you need 3,335 tires

Car money cost

If you buy a new or used car every seven years at a cost of $10,000, you spent $70,000 on cars after 50 years.

Different car speeds

If you are in a car and driving for five miles, approximately how long does it take to arrive at your destination if you were traveling at different speeds?

At 55 mph, you would travel at .916 miles a minute, and get there in 5.458 minutes.

At 45 mph, you would travel at .75 miles a minute, and get there in 6.666 minutes.

At 35 mph, you would travel at .583 miles a minute, and get there in 8.576 minutes.

At 25 mph, you would travel at .416 miles a minute, and get there in 12.019 minutes.

The car traveling at 25 mph, would need approximately 6 1/2 minutes longer than the car going at 55 mph to reach five miles.

Car power

If you have 200 hp in your car engine, your engine is 149,200 watts.

A 5,000 BTU air conditioner is approximately 500 watts. You would need almost 300 of them running to equal the 200 hp car's 149,200 watt engine.