The distance from Hamburg to Berlin was actually not very far, approximately two hundred and thirty kilometers. If one traveled by horse-drawn carriage, it might take more than ten hours.
Fortunately, automobiles had already been born by this time. Although they had not been widely popularized due to various reasons, they had still become a new type of luxury transport fashion, favored by a portion of the nobility and the wealthy.
Although the current production volume of automobiles was not high, and even with Europe and America combined, the annual production of cars did not reach ten thousand units.
Yet, as one of the world's most powerful industrial nations, Germany not only possessed the manufacturing technology for automobiles, but was also one of the earliest countries to invent them.
It was precisely thanks to this advantage that automobiles were a much more convenient means of transport that German nobles could entirely afford. As William II's guest, William II had specially prepared several brand-new automobiles for Arthur for this journey to Berlin.
Although current automotive technology was still immature, with massive problems in speed, stability, and safety alike.
Compared to the much slower horse-drawn carriages, automobiles possessed a certain advantage at least in terms of speed.
For a horse-drawn carriage, achieving a speed of around 20 kilometers per hour could already be considered a fairly decent pace, and even if it could reach speeds exceeding 20 kilometers per hour, one basically would not choose to run that fast.
Because overly high speeds would tire the horses out more, cause the carriages to experience frequent issues due to jolting, and drastically reduce the comfort of the ride.
The problems of this sort were somewhat reduced in automobiles, and generally maintaining a speed of around 30 kilometers per hour was still quite safe