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Realistically there are much better ways to speed up the flight experience without actually making planes fly any faster. To name a few: - Accessible, high spe
by alwayslikethis 3y ago
Realistically there are much better ways to speed up the flight experience without actually making planes fly any faster. To name a few:
- Accessible, high speed rail connections to the airport
- Better throughput with security theater
- Faster boarding methods to prioritize speed (back rows first)
- Faster luggage claim process
and so on. There's a reason why high speed rail is competitive with flights below a fairly long distance. Most people aren't flying this far at current prices, which does not even reflect the full cost of carbon emissions. Flying faster is inevitably less efficient, and when the full cost of energy is reflected on the price tag, this is only going to be less appealing.
- ubermonkey 3y agoSure, but high speed rail from NYT to Tokyo has conceptual problems that I think are unlikely to be solved with airport logistics. :)
- maxxhe 3y agoI remember reading this RAND Corp article published maybe 60 years ago about the deep underground highspeed transit system that goes 10K MPH in vacuumed tubes. I guess that was the origin of Musk’s hyperloop but my understanding is such system is actually darkly operational connecting the world for DUMBs?