Writer's Block: Transportation

[avevale_intelligencer]

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Teleportation is great for emergencies. I'd rather have a long, slow, comfortable journey, and live in a society where it was okay to do that.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

Where's my flying car? Actually, I have two modes of travel: one where I am travelling for the sake of it, and want to take a long time and see things on the way (and stop when I like to look at interesting places); the other where I already know the journey in excruciating detail (like going to work) where I just want to BE THERE NOW without having to do the bit in between. So a combination of teleportation and a horse and cart would be ideal...

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Train does both, because on a train you can read. As I say, though, my ideal mode of transportation would exist in a society where the pressure to BE THERE NOW was no longer a factor.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

For me it isn't so much "have to get there now" as "skip the boring bit in between". Like when I was working in London and getting the train in or back in the dark (I can't safely read on trains for that long; longer than in a car but I still have motion sickness after a while even on smoother trains). It would also apply to plane flights (when I'm a passenger, rather than at the controls), they are just boring and uncomfortable and most of the time with nothing to see. Whereas taking a train through some places is too fast for me, I want to savour it and get off and investigate interesting buildings and walk through the landscape.