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Parts don’t wear out, and, uh, shower I guess
Edit: actually bread. Just in case the economy crashes and I’m homeless. Forever working car with forever fresh bread.
Slightly hovers would not be a smooth ride, in the car driving sense.
It would be like piloting a hovercraft, driving on black ice, everywhere.
You’d be playing bumper cars with everything, have little to no steering control or braking ability… you’d probably die or be maimed if you exceed ~45 mph for any reason.
Also… weather forcefield?
Depending on how you define ‘weather’ and ‘forcefield’ … this could potentially amount to a weapon of mass destruction.
I think we can assume ‘slightly hovers’ means in a magical sense where it still functions and drives like a normal car.
Given almost all the rest of the upgrades are physics-defying there’s no reason this one shouldn’t also be.
So… it has less effective mass than it otherwise should?
Then it has less contact surface area with the ground… it has less mass pressing down on that less surface area, and thus has less traction and control.
This is an unavoidable physics problem.
Like, technically, Superman has a magic ability to alter the surface tension / tensile strength of large objects he lifts… because if he did not, he would simply puncture them, or they would collapse around where he is lifting them.
You’re gonna need better defined magic.
I don’t see any situation where I don’t go with the parts never wearing out. Like, it could have stated that your parts never wore out, but you hit every red light you ever come into, and I would have still jumped on that one.
So the parts never wear out and then probably the bread one because I like bread.
People are sleeping on the car folding into a suitcase. You would basically never need to pay for Uber, Taxis, or rent a car again. Also you never need to pay for parking, and can now easily park in places with limited parking spots.
And it’s a discount hammer space option since you can fit a car’s worth of stuff in the car which is in your light suitcase. For some people that would be more useful than fitting an arbitrary amount of stuff in a car-sized space, since a car is relatively large and heavy on its own.
Trunk of holding, bread and shower.
I barely drive (work from home), would put all the extra shit in my house in trunk and drive with my kids every night for 10 mins so we all get out showers done and well free bread.
How does the shower work? Does it just magically grant you the same effects as a hot shower, or does it just literally dump a stream of hot water on your head as you drive?
Green lights only is OP.
I’ll take the diamond please, and limitless hot showers conveniently while I drive.
Dude, its parts dont wear out. Obviously. In this economy? Having a car that will not wear and break down is thousands saved. Plus, eliminating the anxiety of the possibility of massive unforseen repair bills.
After that… the bread I guess?
It really depends on whether your goal is to maximize money or quality of life. I’m already able to afford my car and its maintenance. If I never have repair bills, OK, I guess in theory I retire a little bit earlier than I otherwise would? But never having to worry about parking? That’s a major power up.
Although, to be fair, I wish it wasn’t a suitcase and something even smaller. Something that would fit in your pocket. The problem with a suitcase is that many of the areas where you would most want to use this won’t let you bring in a suitcase. Saving the walk across a giant parking lot for a big box store is of no use if the store doesn’t allow you to bring in large bags or suitcases. A suitcase is just an odd thing to have in many settings.
Where it would be amazing? Domestic air travel. Fly to a different city in-country? Your vehicle’s licensing and registration will still be valid, and you’ll never need to pay for an airport taxi or rental car again. But something pocket sized would really let this reach its potential.
Although, especially if it’s pocket-sized, we then need to get into the mechanics of it. Does it unfold at the press of a button? That sounds dangerous. You probably don’t want to be too close to an unfolding car. So maybe a key fob triggers it? Does this allow me to throw my car at someone, pressing the button to unfold it mid-air?
Exactly, free food literally forever!
Bag of holding plus hover means I can just set up a big home in the trunk and it’ll never have quakes or collapse. Worth the maintenance cost by not having to buy or build a house.
Breathing creatures can only survive a number of minutes equal to 10 divided by the number of creatures before they start to suffocate, so you can store stuff in it, but you can’t live in the bag of holding
if we all pool our upgrade we can get trains instead, and none of us has to worry about car bullshit again
Better idea. If we have literal magic on our side, let’s make it so cars can just phase through each other. They can’t fall through the ground or pass through walls or anything but other cars and their contents and other road users. But two cars can just drive right through each other unharmed. A car can drive right through a bike or pedestrian unharmed. It works this way because magic.
Cars are now more space efficient than trains. And on the plus side we will no longer need stop signs or traffic lights, and speed limits can be greatly increased.
Although, on the downside, driving will now be a terrifying drug trip of an experience. Occasionally you just briefly see inside another person’s skull.
hear me out hear me out
trunk of holding
i don’t need a car for getting around, but free, unlimited storrage space that i could park lets say a few meters away from my door? that sounds reallyyy usefull! could maybe even put in a ladder and furniture and hang out in it, depending on how the rules work…
… the trunk is bigger on the inside.
Forwarding to my partner so we can pool resources into a really spiffy car:
- suitcase
- weather forcefield (does that work when you’re carrying the suitcase?)
- no repairs
- bread
if flood count as weather, the forcefield could make it double as a boat!
A good (electric)-bike.
A bike/public transit/pedestrian version of this?
Def picking 5 loaves of bread
