26 Apr
2014
26 Apr
'14
2:51 a.m.
Daniel Jitnah wrote:
You could already do this right now, even with a 400km range, if you could for example have "car swap stations" within 400 kms to each other spread around. By the way, I believe "John Wayne" did this ... ride his horse to a place and change to a new horse somewhere on the trip and continued his trip on another horse!!!
This was standard practice for messenger services prior to the telegraph (and heliograph?). Permanent stations were set up one day's ride apart. In hostile territory you would bring the 'remounts' with you. IMO mass transit should be promoted where it's appropriate. Cars really ought to be a stopgap for when nobody else wants to go there.