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Who said anything about more than doubling all your travel times? There will pretty much always be a safe opportunity to pass eventually. Unless you're going somewhere at rush hour, in which case you're an idiot if you don't plan for it.
Just go an hour or 2 early in case you blow a tire or something else happens. Hell, there could be a long-ass queue at airport security too. Or is a missed flight really better than an hour or 2 of your time?
can't believe you're getting down voted man. I was raised in a household so averse to lateness we'd set our clocks ahead to give the illusion that we're late. It really isn't that hard to just give yourself extra time so you can arrive a bit earlier if everything goes right. And by 'bit' I do mean like a half hour to an hour. Not that insane 'a day early' bs someone else spouted.
I refuse to think that a layperson has their day so heavily packed they can't even afford half an hour of 'contingency time'
I don't have a spare tire in the car, so a blown one would definitely mean a missed flight :P Accounting for traffic is fine and what I hope the original commenter meant, but trying to account for all things that can go wrong and are out of your control is not particularly reasonable. And in the hypothetical scenario of the comic they explicitly state there isn't a safe period to pass.
That's why I said an hour or two to spare! You can get the car towed to a workshop and grab a taxi yourself in the meantime. Obviously something like 5 hours to spare would be way too much, unless you're driving 6-7 hours to the airport to begin with. For me it would usually be more like an hour and a half so I'd start driving ~3-4 hours before the flight.
Personally I don't want to pay extra for a flexible ticket or whatever and I'm NOT skipping a flight, so I'll do everything reasonably in my power to make the flight. It's not like I'm going to be doing much else earlier in the day anyway, if I'm flying somewhere, it's an occasion and I'm not going to work in the morning lol
But there must be one eventually. It is very rare not to get an opportunity to pass sooner or later. If there truly is not, the person driving the overheating car would generally pull over to let people pass.
Though I suppose the hypothetical scenario makes zero sense anyway, because 15 in a 45 is actually more likely to make your car overheat if it's prone to do so in the first place. The cooling system works better when the radiator is getting air on it.