Comment Re:Bricking or Tracking? (Score 1) 299
As far as cross-country driving went....
Shortly before WWII, the Army told a colonel to take a road convoy across the US and report how it went. The applicable word is "badly". Roads didn't connect up in any sensible fashion, weren't reliable, etc.
During WWII, this particular colonel had a really impressive career, getting multiple promotions. After WWII, when former colonel Eisenhower became president he started the Interstate highways as a defense program.