The Harvard team suggests speeding up a project launched in 1994 to purchase 500 tonnes of highly-enriched uranium released from Russian weapons and blend it down over 20 years for use in civilian reactors.
So far, the call for enforcing the suggested speed limit, however, has stalled.
But products whose silhouettes suggested speed while masking function evolved in the United States, where curves added consumer appeal, Mr. Hanks said.
Jeff Hoffmann, former Nasa astronaut and director of the Man Vehicle Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agreed, adding that when it comes to travelling to the moon and beyond, the findings suggest speed might be of the essence.
A. Eugene Kohn, a co-founder and chairman of the firm, said at the news conference this weekend that the new design was "intended to express motion or rather constant motion, suggesting speed, aerodynamics and the movement of air.
And while the proposed HS2 route would have a maximum speed of 225mph, the suggested speed for the new trans-Pennine link would be around 125mph.
Another instruction that was given to the drivers in both scenarios was to reach the minimum suggested speed and then try to maintain it as his/her minimum one.
Via a wireless communication link, it provides the driver with the status of the traffic lights and a suggested speed to allow him/her to pass the intersections safely.
