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Letter: On the rails

Published 23 November 2011

From Gavin McGowan

Your impossible inventions article stated that “planes, trains and automobiles navigate using satellites” (15 October, p 39). Trains run on fixed lines, of course.

Isle of Skye, UK

Issue no. 2840 published 26 November 2011

New Scientist issue 2840 cover

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