[gurps] Heinlein Battlesuits

[JL Hatlen Linnell]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:35 AM, rekres <rekres at gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing I've always wondered about....
>
> Once you get sufficiently advanced hover/anti-grav, doesn't it make
> legged/wheeled/tracked drivetrains almost obsolete?  Why walk when you
> can fly just as easily?

Price? Polluting side-effects?  We don't use motorized shopping carts,
except as a convenience for those who cannot easily walk through
stores.  And even those weren't in use for nearly a century after
motorized vehicles were in common use.  There are still plenty of uses
for wheeled vehicles for which grav technology would be far too
expensive for a long time after it's introduced.

Momentum is another reality.  We have the technology /now/ to use
inexpensive one-person motorized or road-bound transport that'd be a
lot more energy efficient than the cars we use now, and in many ways
freer to navigate and with less traffic jams.  Why don't we use them?
They'd be a whole new marketing approach to people who already have
cars, plus there's a large industry dependent on the cars and buses we
use now - and they won't exactly support the effort to supplant their
business with something new.

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