If *this* was an option for your route, would you choose it or stick to flying? (HyperLoop)

[hunter]

17. If I was Emperor of the Earth I'd enforce a universal 50 Kilometre per hour speed limit...

... for all mechanical forms of transport.

The only exception would be emergency services vehicles, but only for limited distances. I might also make exceptions for sailboats and bicycles.

The phaser arrays of my space fortress would destroy any vehicle violating my universal speed limit as soon as it was safe to do so. Looking out the window of an airplane a speed limit violator might see the wings cut off as soon as their plane landed and came to a halt.

World travel would still be possible on slow boats and railroads. There would be lots of time to get to know your fellow passengers.

In a way I'd be mirroring the benefits of the actual universal speed limit, which is the speed of light. In universes where faster-than-light travel is possible plague species similar to humans trash everything, causing mass extinction events wherever they go. A ban on faster-than-light travel keeps them confined to their home worlds until they either destroy themselves or learn good manners.

But I'm not one to talk... I like fast too. When I was young and foolish I once drove a big motorcycle from the California coast to Death Valley averaging more than 100 mph.