Quote from: FirstAscent on August 23, 2012, 05:04:16 AM

Quote from: Coreadrin_47 on August 22, 2012, 11:56:54 PM

And for everyone who seems to think that human beings couldn't manage to use personal flight devices, you imagine what someone in the 1800's would have thought if you had told them "human beings will travel at over 5 times the speed of the fastest horse, over land, in a machine that they fully control, that weighs over five times as much as a horse carriage, and they will travel in groups of thousands of these machines going every which way."

The American Quarter Horse has been clocked at speeds up to 55mph (with rider).

And then there's absolute and pure domination: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u16T05o7JA

And now we return to our regularly programmed bickering and arguing.

Allow me to correct and edit to show "average", then. As far as road travel goes, I would be surprised if most horse and wagon combos were going faster than 10mph...