"by current standards continues is 7 feet high, 18 feet long, weighs 12 tons, sleeps 10, and get's 8 MPG, is at best insane." Want to do something about SUVs? Just point at them and laugh as they drive by or at stop lights. Almost everyone I know who drives one of the damned things is at least a bit defensive about it, always making excuses about "safety" and how important it is to have four-wheel drive for the snows here in Southern New Mexico. If enough of us just laugh at them, they won't seem quite so cool anymore.
The use of trains, high-speed or not, could considerably enhance the long-distance driving experience using ordinary automobiles, by eliminating many or all cross-country trucks from our freeways. Imagine using I-40 or other major freeways without being blasted every few minutes by some grade-school dropout with a commercial driver's license behind the wheel of a monster truck loaded with frozen chickens.
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"by current standards continues is 7 feet high, 18 feet long, weighs 12 tons, sleeps 10, and get's 8 MPG, is at best insane." Want to do something about SUVs? Just point at them and laugh as they drive by or at stop lights. Almost everyone I know who drives one of the damned things is at least a bit defensive about it, always making excuses about "safety" and how important it is to have four-wheel drive for the snows here in Southern New Mexico. If enough of us just laugh at them, they won't seem quite so cool anymore.
The use of trains, high-speed or not, could considerably enhance the long-distance driving experience using ordinary automobiles, by eliminating many or all cross-country trucks from our freeways. Imagine using I-40 or other major freeways without being blasted every few minutes by some grade-school dropout with a commercial driver's license behind the wheel of a monster truck loaded with frozen chickens.
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