• 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.

  • DecentM ( DecentM@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    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.

  • sp3ctr4l ( sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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    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.

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    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…

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    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
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    Folds into a (light) suitcase is WILDLY OP in the grand scheme of things. Granted most of these are OP. So is Bag of Holding in Trunk, that has insane use-cases too (how much can it hold?!).

    But imagine THE WHOLE CAR is compressible. Too bad you only have 5k magic-bucks, otherwise you’d have a compressible infinity machine with the trunk-bag-of-holding.

    Whatever, compressible car is nuts. Pick your other less-important upgrades (weather forcefield for me but only if it protects from humidity and hot weather, otherwise 2x bread loaf and then I can basically coast forever on free food and making people happy with bread)

    Now then. Imagine taking the HST or flying, but OH SHNAP, I have my car-sized suitcase in my lap or as a carryon the whole ride. When I get there I can decompress it and take stuff out / put stuff in / zoop around to wherever I want (assuming it’s legal) and then compress it again because fuck driving, I want to take public transit unless it’s not available.

    And wait, what defines a “car?” Here’s where admittedly shit could go off the rails.

    Can an e-bike be my “car” under this rule because if so this is GOATed. What about a transit van? A box van? A tractor-trailer combo? Could I carry a tanker truck load of water with me as a suitcase? Does that count as my “car?” Can I dump water in places it legit needs to be with my compressible suitcase tanker truck? What about a container trailer worth of food/material/??? as a suitcase? Could I help deal with world hunger / drought / forest fires / other??? Yeah, this is pretty broken.