Whisk across Utah in the blink of an eye (well, maybe not that fast, but still incredibly quick). As you pull up to the border, your car is fitted into a pod, slipped onto a monorail, and sent sailing through a vacuumed tunnel the length of the state.
Utah could build such a futuristic transportation system.
Let me tell you why it should. Technology is such that we could switch from carbon-powered transportation to something else, if only we would. Unfortunately, the momentum of society is stuck on carbon. The principle of momentum applies here, so we continue down the road we are on.
But, if a system such as this were cast before our eyes -- on display in all its glory and available each time someone pulled up to the Utah border -- the excitement of changing to other forms of fuel would sweep the nation in no time.
Cover the tunnel with solar panels. Collect the energy, and funnel it into the tunnel. I will be frank: Though I would have the cars powered electromagnetically, I do not know much about the creation of electromagnetic power. If the solar panels would provide it, use them.
Maybe call it mono-mono magnetic vacuum travel, the two monos referring to monorail and mono vehicle, meaning one car at a time, as opposed to being mass transit.
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