cruising

Even at 30,000 feet the air is thick as soup at cruising speed, and that's why planes have not got faster for the last 50 years.

But not drastically as weight has little impact at cruising speed & you have regenerative braking in city.

About thirty percent of traffic in SF is due to people cruising around the block, looking for parking.

The rest of them were apparently just cruising around the ocean trying to avoid getting killed themselves.

What is the cruising altitude of a Boeing 787 compared to a VW beetle?

I feel like at cruising altitude, there aren't really enough false-positives out there that the system would be unusable.

My understanding is that airline pilots only use autopilot when at cruising altitude.

Apparently the normal 30,000 feet cruising altitude is not higher because the reduced oxygen levels at higher altitudes impact the gasoline combustion too much.

By the same logic we probably should also ask China about US Navy cruising close to its territory regularly, i.e.

She's cruising right along, hasn't realized it's a problem just yet.

I'm not curious enough about it to risk slowing down my cruising speed, though.

If I'm just cruising through things at my own pace, it's all good.

So: some quick googling suggests that "economical cruising speed" of an Airbus A320 is 840km/h [1].

Some of the comments on the NYT piece touch on this -- that higher-earning, hard-working employees were off-put when their "just-barely-cruising-along" employees were receiving the equivalent of a promotion.

Cruising up and down the same fairways for the seventeenth year can really get to you.