If your CAR was the U.S.S. Enterprise...

[Creedence]

MPH
1-9 = Auxiliary Thrusters Only
10+ = 1/4 Impulse
20+ = 1/2 Impulse
30+ = 3/4 Impulse
40+ = Full Impulse
55+ = Warp 1
60+ = Warp 2
65+ = Warp 4
70+ = Warp 6
75+ = Warp 8
80+ = Warp 9
85+ = Warp 9.5
90+ = All Good Things must come to an end...

As good a speed scale as any for warp-capable passenger vehicles, but.... I see a problem when you are just running errands in town or spend long periods of time in rush hour traffic. Traveling at sub-light speeds for extended periods of time force even futuristic starships to occasionally reset their ship-board chronometers to account for relativistic time dilation. It's possible that if you get jammed in the evening crush, you could miss the game/Lost/American Idol/insert favorite primetime programming here.

Be careful. While we can have fun bestowing warp drives on our minivans, I'm convinced modern vehicles would never withstand the rigors of time travel in a futile attempt to travel back to see what you missed while grinding away at half impulse.

 

[Cyke101]

Be careful. While we can have fun bestowing warp drives on our minivans, I'm convinced modern vehicles would never withstand the rigors of time travel in a futile attempt to travel back to see what you missed while grinding away at half impulse.

Which reminds me: minivans are the bane of my starship's existence. They're capable of Warp 9, but they tend to travel at Warp 1... in the fast lane!* They're the ships that hold other ships back and end up clogging the warp corridor.

*using Joshua Howard's warp scale

P.S. Tunnels = wormholes?

 

[kitsune]

P.S. Tunnels = wormholes?

potholes = spatial anomalies (best to avoid them)
time zone borders = temporal distortions

 

[Cyke101]

P.S. Tunnels = wormholes?

potholes = spatial anomalies (best to avoid them)
time zone borders = temporal distortions

I *hate* temporal distortions, especially if that I means that I have to change the ship's chronometer (conveniently located above the ship's subspace receiver and CD player).

 

[Sector 7]

Thankfully I do not share the roads with many of your vessels. Although I have seen many of your kind on the road... doing Heaven Knows What instead of concentrating on the road and those around you.
The only times I really wish I had onboard phasers:
- Those using communication devices while helming a vehicle capable of dealing careless death
- Those inebriated aliens helming said vehicles

My father is a retired race car driver with a lead foot. He now lets me drive when we go out. I surrendered my lead foot for lower insurance rates.

 

[buffyscrubs]

If my car was a starship I would use my deflectors to push everyone out of the way during rush-hour traffic. Starfleet emergency.

you are very cute lol