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As Cyan points out, Tao is saying that you can't sail directly with the wind faster than the wind if you don't exploit more than one dimension. But the carts that started this discussion do exploit more than one dimension. Specifically, they exploit the vertical dimension by using the difference in speed between the ground and the air.