Recent Examples on the WebRather than be deterred, travelers should think of rail travel as breaking the mold of point-to-point round trips, said Jones.—Albert Stumm, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024 For the most part, these crafts bear a greater resemblance to helicopter-plane hybrids than to automobiles, and they can’t be driven on the road; they might better be described as electric aerial vehicles with the ability to hover and the no-fuss point-to-point flexibility of a car.—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 The plan was brilliant: Flyer set up rental shops at train stations, while Hasler mapped out the most thrilling point-to-points.—Tim Neville, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2024 The foregoing alternative: point-to-point claim submission via carrier pigeon.—Seth Joseph, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 These days, terahertz is also being used to offer very-wide-bandwidth, high-data-rate point-to-point communications for computer backhaul systems and high-video-rate systems.—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024 Gig offered one-way point-to-point rentals, letting users pick up a car in one place and drop it off anywhere within Sacramento.—Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024 Official reports state that the annual inflation rate exceeds 46.5 percent, with point-to-point inflation at 63.9 percent.—Susanna Hoffman, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024 Closer to home, SpaceX has sold Starship as a vehicle that could eventually provide global point-to-point flights for people and cargo between destinations on opposite sides of the world.—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 24 July 2023
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