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The only thing they need to be concerned with is being faster than everything else. Units are arbitrary, even kilometers (1000x the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second). Once they go past 500 km/h people will start wondering about some other round number until we get to relativistic speeds.

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Going faster than the speed of sound would be interesting and a somewhat "non-arbitrary" target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThrustSSC

At these speeds there's more to be said about how good the tyres are. You can add more power and better aero up until the point where the rubber shreds. It would be interesting to see what the car could do with solid wheels on a salt flat.

And we get there, we will strive to achieve Warp 10

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