Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo...
by A2017U1 on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:00PM
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At 1g constant acceleration/decceleration you could make it to the Moon (380,000 km) in 3 hours.
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Re:Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes peo...
by thaumasiotes on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:44PM
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Fair enough.
A six hour commute is unrealistic, but by my calculations a constant 1g of acceleration is enough to cover a round trip from Wellington, New Zealand to Tokyo and another from Wellington to Lisbon in under 90 minutes of daily commute.
I note that in reality, we don't ever travel with constant nonzero acceleration, but it's fair to ignore that under the explicit assumption that there are no costs involved.