And - as a side note - my grandfather (born 1885 and dead prematurely in 1936) was originally from a village that in the 1930's was reachable from my city by pu

And - as a side note - my grandfather (born 1885 and dead prematurely in 1936) was originally from a village that in the 1930's was reachable from my city by public transport (train) in around 6-7 hours. When I was a kid (think of the 60's and 70's) we went there in the summer, and it took us ... the same 6-7 hours, if we used the car it took something less than 3 hours. Nowadays, that is respectively almost 100 years or 50 years later, guess how much it takes? I just checked, 6:15 by train, 2:30 by car. I do know that it is probably an edge case, but one has to think how advancements in technology are actually applied to real world cases.