Such is the Jack Kerouac-type deprivation of life on the open road the world is experiencing right now, what was once seen as a mind-numbing and slightly tedious long country drive is now a delight many drivers would wrestle the car keys for.

And now, you can take that long journey, completely virtually from the confines of your loungeroom.

In a very strange twist on these very strange, cocooning indoor times, a luxury car brand has released four hours of a road trip through central NSW.

There's no dialogue or even narration, just hour after hour of soothing music, birdsong and landscape shots taken from above, the side, behind, out the side window, down the road, and of the driver's hands on the car's steering wheel.

The vehicle used is a red Audi A6 and the driver is the communications manager for Audi Australia, Sean Cleary.

It's bringing the open road indoors under a new genre called "slow TV", a term used for a deliberate production and coverage of an ordinary event in real time, in its complete length.

Online there's numerous slow examples, including a nine-and-a-half hour train journey to the Arctic Circle in Norway, with the rumble of rolling stock as the only soundtrack.

With just one camera angle shown - the railway line directly ahead of the locomotive - it's hypnotic viewing.

However, "The Drive", is more diversified in its shot selection. It is the first collaboration between Audi and social media agency We Are Social since the company was appointed to the social media account in January.

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It's meant to tap into the "zen" nature of the genre and deliver a calming visual message while people are stuck at home, besieged by hourly updates on the death march of COVID-19 and stressed by even a simple trip to buy groceries

Slow TV is an innovative form of story-telling made for people with plenty of time - which many of us have right now - and one which introduces a new model car to the public - in this case, the traditionally little-known, slow-selling Audi A6 - without a cheesy or hard sell message, which is certain to be abrasive to many consumers.

The film was shot just two weeks ago, so it is timely and visually captured the revitalisation of the inland NSW landscape around Bathurst and Lithgow after a long period of drought.