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The highest I have gone was close to 180 in a friend's modified car. The technology required to push a pontiac that fast was pretty high. Actually just excessive camshaft timing, strong stall converter, HUGE displacement etc... At one-eighty on a normal two lane road that has no other traffic is very fast indeed. <br /> <br />On today's roads 180 mph is too fast. You need to take the high speed and build it isolated from everything in the world except stations and necessary support. No one denies the technology exists Europe and Japan has done this for years. <br /> <br />I recall the NYC railroad mounted a Jet engine on a RDC and ran at 180 mph for a period. I dont think they wanted to do it again after that run. <br /> <br />Yes it is expensive. Nothing that has real value is cheap. <br /> <br />I second the fact that cars are "Cheap" my three cars are worth collectively less than 5,000 but feature the cruise control, air conditioning, space and other features that are "Needed" and they do the job fairly well at the speeds we run em at. <br /> <br />If I wanted to spend 300,000 for a specialized car that can run at very high speeds then I will have no place to run it safely. The USA would need to build highways based on the German Autobahn model and technology before I can travel regular at 150+ <br /> <br />If I traveled to europe and rented a fast (Safe) car and ran 150+ in Germany I will have no problems at those speeds. The problem is not me being able to drive at speed. But rather the amount of "Demand" expressed by how many people are trying to get down that same highway. <br /> <br />Eventually things must slow down because there are too many people using the same highway. <br /> <br />Applied to trains, high speed rail: <br /> <br />http://www.newtrains.org/pages/354051/ <br />http://www.sehsr.org/ <br />http://www.floridahighspeedrail.org/ <br />http://www.hsgta.com/ <br /> <br />These are just a few sites on google that exist for highspeed rail. One is Europe, two is southern USA and the last one is a tech center where the designs happen. <br /> <br />America can solve the high speed rail provided they come up with the infrastructure, money and manpower to get the job done. One way or another we will have high speed rail in the future. <br /> <br />The Union Pacific already blasts thru my town at 80 mph with 120 car double stacks rocking and swaying across the crossing.. another 40 or more mph probably wont bother us provided we can keep the kids, livestock and errant cars off the track when they come thru.
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