This has nothing to do with acceleration. The idea is that you bend space-time so that you experience movement of a relatively short distance but actually travel hundreds of light years. In order to do so you have to alter space-time as we know it. Just a few weeks ago, we found we don't even know what happens at the edge of our own solar system. How can you think that bending space and time will act the same way as driving faster in a car? Your experience could be movement in the range of a few KM, but in the end you could be light years away. The problem (and the reason you will surely perish if you try it) is that you need to change the way space and time fit. Go ahead and try it, just be a few hundred light years away first so you don't ruin our perfectly functional solar system.
And sometimes it is worth it. If someone shows plausible way to get to Pluto right now on a one way trip passing by Jupiter and Uranus - you will have no shortage of volunteers. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but sent the humanity to the moon.
Yeah, it would be worth it if you actually got to experience anything besides instantaneous death. Also, what makes you think there would be no danger to the surrounding system? Bending space and time within our own solar system sounds like a good way to mess up a pretty intricate balance. Of course, everyone else on HN can read the source code of the universe so they know how impossible any of that is...
Yes, I must be a real luddite... That's why I'm on HN. because I think technology is really awful. Also, thanks for letting me know when the first aircraft was invented. Since I consider the concept of bending time and space dangerous, I must not know anything about mechanized flight.
