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My dream (ha!) is for medical science to advance enough for routine, safe, "deep sedation" for travel.

I arrive at the station/terminal/depot, get put to sleep and loaded into a pod, then wake up at my destination. No fuss, no mess!

All the inconveniences go away and transport efficiency skyrockets.

Though I do worry that I may wake in the wrong place, given how airlines tend to lose baggage today - once we start treating passengers as cargo then we have to worry about all the cargo issues...

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Or just take it a bit further, put on VR suit and arrive in destination within seconds without taking any drugs. For real life live images with rented personal drone at location to live stream reality.

"20, 20, 24 hours to go I wanna be sedated ... Just get me to the airport, put me on a plane Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane" - Ramones

You can have this today!

The folks at the airport bars sell a wonderful concoction called a "Long Island Iced Tea"

Don't let the name fool you; if you drink one 30 minutes before departure (and make it to the plane), you'll open your eyes just as the plane touches down :)

The big problem with your idea is that if you buy it at the airport bar, it will be double the price and half the strength.

> Though I do worry that I may wake in the wrong place

Or they lose track of your pod and find you a dried husk in a warehouse a few years later.

Recent developments in this field:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/08/16/craft-beer-...

Have you just described a sleeper train?

Basically, but I don't think any flight that is 20 hours long has a sleeper train route.

Maybe the Trans-Siberian.

But not a lot of options if I need to get to Indonesia or the Bahamas.

We're not there yet for dogs and cats, which would already be a lot of help!