When I was a teenager, I read (and re-read) an SF novel called “Code Three” by Rick Raphael (based on an earlier short story by Raphael), which posited a future North America with a set of super-highways allowing very high speed (100-500 mph) vehicles. Haven’t read it in years, and the idea seems unfeasible now — given, for example, the impossible task that LA faces just trying to widen some its freeways — but honestly, it makes more sense than high-speed rail.
By the way, “Code Three” was nominated for a Hugo, which itself shows how much that process has changed.
I like this idea even better, and it is even more Earth friendly than what Obama and Nye use.
When I was a teenager, I read (and re-read) an SF novel called “Code Three” by Rick Raphael (based on an earlier short story by Raphael), which posited a future North America with a set of super-highways allowing very high speed (100-500 mph) vehicles. Haven’t read it in years, and the idea seems unfeasible now — given, for example, the impossible task that LA faces just trying to widen some its freeways — but honestly, it makes more sense than high-speed rail.
By the way, “Code Three” was nominated for a Hugo, which itself shows how much that process has changed.
I like this idea even better, and it is even more Earth friendly than what Obama and Nye use.