What all future cars need are Toilets

[manicrodder]

Nah. My kid would always fall asleep during the trip. I we went to Reno or Tahoe from the Bay Area it might need only one stop for gas. To Southern California might need about one or two stops. I always preferred to go to a rest stop anyways to stretch out.

Or one could mainline coffee and do something like this:

Lisa Nowak: Why the Astronaut Drove 900 Miles to Attack Her Ex's Girlfriend

During her trip to confront Colleen Shipman, Nowak reportedly wore diapers to avoid bathroom breaks. Her actions inspired the 2019 movie 'Lucy in the Sky.'

www.biography.com

A story about the space program and an out-of-control love triangle would naturally capture attention, but the reported detail that Nowak wore diapers on her 900-mile drive in order to avoid bathroom breaks transformed the incident into irresistible fodder for tabloids and late-night talk shows alike (though Nowak's attorney would later insist his client never put on diapers).​

Besides adult and child diapers, there are other ways to deal with this.

Official Stadium Pal & Stadium Gal | The Ultimate Portable Urinal

The Stadium Pal portable urinal was featured on the Big Bang Theory and Late Night. It's the #1 recommended spill-proof portable urinal for men and women.

www.stadiumpal.com

Originally created to help men going through prostate surgery recovery or dealing with heavy incontinence issues. The Stadium Pal uses a leakproof external catheter and a urine bag that straps securely to your calf.​

The Portable Urinal Kit Includes:​

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✔ 7 male external catheters​

✔ 18″ flexible hose with connector​

✔ 2 latex free straps​

✔ A pee bag to collect the urine​

Not sure about the female version. They don't go into any of the gory details.

Burt Reynolds had a “Drinking Man’s Friend“ strapped to his calf in one movie.

 

[manicrodder]

How many of the loyal BITOGers have been on a long road trip either by themselves, with a significant other or even a bunch of rowdy kids. Instead of reaching Niagra Falls before dark, you stop at every rest stop because somebody needs to pee or defecate. Why havent auto makers somehow addressed this with a sort of capture device built into the sear? This will be future technology that car companies need to prioritize.

She probably went to drive thru’s for eats. Imagine the poor attendant getting the odor from the driver’s seat.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

The problem I have is I usually can't stay awake after an hour or so behind the wheel.

On longer trips I have stop more to nap than gas or bathrooms.

 

[y_p_w]

This has been a problem for decades. Truckers have been known to relieve themselves into bottles and throw them along the side of the freeway. It costs a lot since they apparently have to be treated like hazardous waste. And it gets even worse for crews that do things like mow lawns or trim weeds alongside freeways. Apparently they're in such a hurry that they don't even bother to pour them down a toilet at a rest area or maybe a truck stop. Still - don't newer sleeper cabs have some sort of toilet? I guess that wouldn't necessarily mean using it while driving, but easily just pouring it in and then taking care of it later at a dump station.

Urine-filled 'trucker bombs' costly to state taxpayers

Chances are you've seen them along Interstate 5.

archive.redding.com

In 1999, when he was head of maintenance for Caltrans' second district, Peterson said he sent crews on a urine bottle cleanup along Interstate 5 in Shasta County.​

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In just a few days, crews collected more than 350 gallons of urine along a 67-mile stretch of freeway from Cottonwood to Dunsmuir.​

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"It's only gotten worse since then," he said.​

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The bottles also are costly to remove, Peterson said.​

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Because crews can't be sure if the fluid really is urine, hazardous materials specialists must be brought in to test the liquid before it's disposed in a sewage system.​

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And it's not just urine that's getting tossed.​

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Peterson said containers filled with feces and other human waste like used dialysis supplies and syringes are becoming ever more common along the highway.​

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Peterson said the bottles of urine in particular pose a health hazards to road workers -- especially those who run the mowers that trim foliage along the highway.​

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The bottles have a tendency to explode when they're run over -- even more so when it's hot outside.​

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Long-haul truckers, Peterson said, are mostly to blame for the urine bottles.​

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Saedra Wederbrook, the local Caltrans Adopt-a-Highway Coordinator, said the bottles often are found in areas where truckers pull off the road to stop or along rural off-ramps where it's easy to chuck a bottle without being spotted.​

 

[Nick1994]

Just don't have kids. Problem solved!

 

[Cujet]

You could just have the whole family do a Fleet Enema before the trip, you'll be able to last a 15 hour road trip with only gasoline stops.

OMG, hahahahahahhahahaa

 

[92saturnsl2]

Once my kids were out of potty training years (that was the toughest time, 3-4 years old), the following have worked for the wife and I:

a) drive at night when kids are asleep. Eat / potty before we leave, we switch drivers as needed and can make a 16-20 hour drive only stopping for gas, and taking bathroom breaks during the gas stops. Force bathroom breaks at every stop. The "I don't have to go" doesn't work for our kids. One meal stop in the morning (combined with getting gas / bathroom break), then we're at our destination for a late lunch. We've become pretty proficient at it. There might be an errant stop or two where we don't need fuel, but it's usually due to driver fatigue / stretching legs.

b) regulate fluid intake -- e.g. don't starve or dehydrate your kid(s), but no need for 20oz cokes on the road trips. (our rule is no food or drink in the vehicles other than water.) Torture/child abuse, I know.

c) daytime long distance drives- some combination of the above.

 

[y_p_w]

Once my kids were out of potty training years (that was the toughest time, 3-4 years old), the following have worked for the wife and I:

a) drive at night when kids are asleep. Eat / potty before we leave, we switch drivers as needed and can make a 16-20 hour drive only stopping for gas, and taking bathroom breaks during the gas stops. Force bathroom breaks at every stop. The "I don't have to go" doesn't work for our kids. One meal stop in the morning (combined with getting gas / bathroom break), then we're at our destination for a late lunch. We've become pretty proficient at it. There might be an errant stop or two where we don't need fuel, but it's usually due to driver fatigue / stretching legs.

b) regulate fluid intake -- e.g. don't starve or dehydrate your kid(s), but no need for 20oz cokes on the road trips. (our rule is no food or drink in the vehicles other than water.) Torture/child abuse, I know.

c) daytime long distance drives- some combination of the above.

When my kid was potty training it was actually quite easy to just go back to pullup type training diapers. It was at a point where it wasn't a foreign concept, although cleaning up was never any fun.

 

[joegreen]

You could just have the whole family do a Fleet Enema before the trip, you'll be able to last a 15 hour road trip with only gasoline stops.

I think "Fleet" is the word that gives this sentence character.

 

[skyactiv]

When you see a sleeper truck rolling down the highway, the driver might live in the semi several days at a time and trucks have no bathroom, no shower, no sink.

 

[ad244]

This has been a problem for decades. Truckers have been known to relieve themselves into bottles and throw them along the side of the freeway. It costs a lot since they apparently have to be treated like hazardous waste. And it gets even worse for crews that do things like mow lawns or trim weeds alongside freeways. Apparently they're in such a hurry that they don't even bother to pour them down a toilet at a rest area or maybe a truck stop. Still - don't newer sleeper cabs have some sort of toilet? I guess that wouldn't necessarily mean using it while driving, but easily just pouring it in and then taking care of it later at a dump station.

Urine-filled 'trucker bombs' costly to state taxpayers

Chances are you've seen them along Interstate 5.

archive.redding.com

In 1999, when he was head of maintenance for Caltrans' second district, Peterson said he sent crews on a urine bottle cleanup along Interstate 5 in Shasta County.​

​

In just a few days, crews collected more than 350 gallons of urine along a 67-mile stretch of freeway from Cottonwood to Dunsmuir.​

​

"It's only gotten worse since then," he said.​

​

The bottles also are costly to remove, Peterson said.​

​

Because crews can't be sure if the fluid really is urine, hazardous materials specialists must be brought in to test the liquid before it's disposed in a sewage system.​

********​

And it's not just urine that's getting tossed.​

​

Peterson said containers filled with feces and other human waste like used dialysis supplies and syringes are becoming ever more common along the highway.​

​

Peterson said the bottles of urine in particular pose a health hazards to road workers -- especially those who run the mowers that trim foliage along the highway.​

​

The bottles have a tendency to explode when they're run over -- even more so when it's hot outside.​

​

Long-haul truckers, Peterson said, are mostly to blame for the urine bottles.​

​

Saedra Wederbrook, the local Caltrans Adopt-a-Highway Coordinator, said the bottles often are found in areas where truckers pull off the road to stop or along rural off-ramps where it's easy to chuck a bottle without being spotted.​

This is the kind of investigative reporting I was looking for. Very insightful.

Its time for an Automaker to step up.... Who's first?

 

[y_p_w]

When you see a sleeper truck rolling down the highway, the driver might live in the semi several days at a time and trucks have no bathroom, no shower, no sink.



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Unless there's a microwave and a freezer full of Tina's Burritos, don't most truckers stop to eat - often at truck stops where they can pay for a shower?

 

[y_p_w]

This is the kind of investigative reporting I was looking for. Very insightful.

Its time for an Automaker to step up.... Who's first?

We've got "safety roadside areas" all over California that have places to go or just dump that bottle out in a toilet. I'm still kind of grossed out that the article implies that truckers are driving and peeing into bottles at the same time.

But man it would suck to be a Caltrans worker mowing in a freeway median and all of a sudden a bottle of urine gets atomized by a riding mower since it's buried under 12 inches of grass.

 

[Silver Samurai]

You should have just peed in the pool like the rest of us

you jerk - I just giggles/snorted my coffee

 

[ad244]

But man it would suck to be a Caltrans worker mowing in a freeway median and all of a sudden a bottle of urine gets atomized by a riding mower since it's buried under 12 inches of grass.

This is how COVID really started

 

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