7 Reasons Why Driving Alone On A Long Journey Sucks

1. You have to pay all the costs

There’s no denying that driving alone takes a fair chunk out of our wallets. You spend money on all the fuel while lugging around a two-to-five seater car, which proves to be nothing more than a waste of seats. However, there is now a way to recoup some of the cash…

BlaBlaCar is a service that will let you ‘rent out’ your passenger seats to a set of approved checked members for longer journeys. That way, you get to share the travel costs. Cost reduction, bro!

2. There's no one to have car banter with

One of the best things about a long trip is the fun you have along the way; car bingo, ‘I spy’, and who could forget automotive twenty questions! However, trying to play the heated seat game is a lot less fun when you’re playing solo. So the next time you’re planning an epic road trip, make sure you fill your seats with potential heated seats game players.

3. You don't have your own personal DJ

A long journey demands tunes, but your job as the driver is to focus on the road with few distractions. When your Phil Collins Greatest Hits CD inevitably comes to a sorry end, you scramble around for the next CD (maybe a bit of Lionel), which diverts your attention from the real task at hand: driving. With someone else in the car, however, you needn’t worry because you’ve got your own personal DJ sitting in the passenger seat.

4. No dance partner

We’ve all been there: you’re cruising along, bored out of your mind, when suddenly, your favourite tune comes on the radio. Your first instinct is to nod your head and wave your left hand in a clockwise motion while biting your lips together, but when you’re alone, you never really feel 100 per cent comfortable going all out with the moves. For that, you need a dedicated raver in the passenger seat who’s as happy to look like a fool as you are.

5. There's no one to keep you alert

As much as we like driving, it can be dangerous, especially if you miss road hazards. A passenger’s extra pair of eyes, therefore, can help you identify dangers, and could save you from bumping into that parked car you simply didn’t see.

6. You're alone when you get completely lost

As car people, we’re a proud race, and this extends to our navigation skills. Still, we do get lost on occasion, and because we don’t accept defeat by asking directions, we’re often stranded for long periods of time while we faff with the sat-nav or scramble around in the boot for that map that we suddenly remember using to clean up an oil spill.

For that reason, a BlaBlaCar passenger may know the way, and thus could save you the embarrassment of having to ask for directions.

7. You get bored quickly when you're alone

It’s incredibly easy to get bored while driving, especially on the motorway. Simply having a passenger makes the journey seem far quicker, even if you are boring him or her about cars (sorry to all the non-car people!). So do yourselves a favour and become a BlaBlaCar driver. Not only will you save money on your journeys, you’ll also be able to dance like a mad man and amuse yourself by covertly heating your passenger’s buttocks to melting point.

To make sharing your driving costs with great passengers even easier, BlaBlaCar now has both iOS and Android apps!