Questions tagged [vehicles]
For questions about implemented technology that can be used for transportation. For questions about the act of transportation, consider using [transportation] instead.
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Is it feasible that cars would be made with a central driving position?
On the world of Ruquelis, I'm contemplating having cars (currently at circa 1920s levels of development and styling) having a central driving position, not because of some recent design decision, but ...
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Best vehicle for ascending & descending a super deep valley [closed]
I'm creating an inverted version of Earth. All mountains are transformed into valleys with depth equal to their elevation × -1. This means for instance that the Himalayas is now a massive valley that ...
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How to make a portable Thermic Lance effective against tanks/APCs? [closed]
For my near future science-fiction story, I want to create a melee weapon that is effective against modern military vehicles. You need a weapon with lots of energy/power to cut through tank armor and ...
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Overland Ekranoplan Highways?
Supposing the world had access to these technologies at the same time, how viable would creating large, flat highways for large ground effect vehicles for the fast transport of cargo or passengers ...
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In a post collapse world, how long can cars and other vehicles kept usable?(Not considering fuel) [duplicate]
All the other threads are talking only about fuel and not talking about shelf life of spare parts, I already did enough research on fuels (bio diesel, gasifier, ethanol, human waste , refining old ...
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How could you get road vehicles down into the London Underground network?
For my current project, I'm playing with various options for living spaces underground, where a section of society is being kept safe from harm above within the London Underground network. I wrote a ...
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With modern technology would it be possible to build an HG Wells style Martian tripod?
With modern technology would it be possible to build an HG Wells style Martian tripod?
It should approximate to one of the HG Wells war of the worlds style tripods at roughly 30m high and have a “heat ...
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Ways to refuel nuclear powered cars
I am working on a story set on a world where cars (or in a broader sense road based vehicles) are the main transport mode (aircraft have never been invented here and most bodies of water are so small ...
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How could hovercraft be made an economically viable option for overland transportation?
The level of technology is mostly on par with that of the early 1970s. Hovercraft similar to the SR.N6, Bell Aerospace Voyageur and Lebed are what is available. Other methods of transport are at the ...
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Do internal combustion piston engines have a place in an interstellar civilization?
So purely electric vehicles are clearly the future. Battery tech is getting better every day and EVs are gradually getting cheaper. However, they don't sound cool. They don't really sound like ...
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How to transport troops from surface to orbit?
how could one transport people planetside into orbit when the planet the people are on has no infrastructure for launching stuff into orbit? (this includes rockets and railgunning things into orbit) I ...
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Would it be possible to make a wheel out of ferrofluids?
Imagine a vehicle, with wheels, the center of the wheel is going to be piece of electromagnet that looks like a egg churner/or a paddle wheel, around it, instead of rubber, it's going to be A LOT of ...
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What would a vehicle with these properties look like? A nomad's caravan
On Terra, many many people used to be nomadic. Now very few are. An exception is Mongolia, where now in 2023, about 30% of the population remain nomadic. The world I am building is a sort of global-...
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Horses or ATVS? [closed]
Writing a setting where people have access to modern technology from the greater world, but the people of this land haven't really developed yet; there isn't a rail or road network connecting the ...
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Believably Enhancing Actuator Machinery Performance through Ground Detection Techniques in Articulated Mechanical Racehorse Hooves
My hero is an ingenious technician held captive in a pirate enclave and serving them in the mechanical maintenance of their steampunk race horses. Similar to pod racing in Star Wars I: The Phantom ...
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