STL Warp usage for transportation around a planet?
Assuming the Alcubierre drive can be made to work, there are issues with it, like the creation of black holes and white holes in front of/behind the ship. There is also the having to be on tracks probably thing. Also the field ends up having cosmic ray particles pushed along with the ship which get ejected at the target destination. That being the case it seems like a really impractical FTL, but assuming these are all true, would they hold true for a warp track that went slower than light? And would you need a special vehicle to use it? Could you just step in it and be rushed to your destination without problem, or could you get away with a simple capsule?
Basically I'm suggesting using a Warp bubble track, with at maximum the need of a capsule to ride in, that you'd use for travel around a city, planet, or possibly even a solar system. Would there be problems with it, so long as you keep it under FTL, assuming all the possible problems of the warp bubble do happen?
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