Yep. I'm old enough to remember the national 55mph speed limit.
(And odd/even gasoline days, too, but I digress...)
Air/rafts again...
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(And odd/even gasoline days, too, but I digress...)
Condottiere
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So would remote operations, by Traffic Control.
Eh, all of the "flying trucks" I knew about in the 70s had stall speeds higher than 75mph.
Not that I don't appreciate the utility of doing 75 MPH over, well, anything, but that doesn't mean its not slow.
Condottiere
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Place the cockpit to the side, like the Millenium Falcon, and you actually have a flatbed.
Self-driving within a nice clean, safe airlane, sure. Out in the wilderness, sure - at several thousand feet. Heck, we can do that today and have been doing it for decades (autopilot, etc.). We can also do low-level terrain-following, so that's also a given.Until self-driving tech is solved.
So, TL-9 maybe.
NoE flight with safe collision avoidance, and off-road ground travel (especially without maps) those are a whole other thing and I do not think Traveller's computers are up to it at TL9. TL12 when decent robot brans become available is where I'd peg that.
Spinward Flow
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If the real world is any sort of guide to this question, self-driving tech is a TL=8 advancement.Until self-driving tech is solved.
So, TL-9 maybe.
mike wightman
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It will be a thing long before we have fusion power, air.rafts, and man portable laser carbines.
Technically in Traveller it would be TL12....
Condottiere
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Well, on a more somber note, I think drone warfare will be driving these innovations:
1. Autonomous piloting
2. Laser weapon systems
Gravity?
Quarks?
1. Autonomous piloting
2. Laser weapon systems
Gravity?
Quarks?
Directed energy weapons.
Condottiere
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I guess that's more appropriate, if you include electronic warfare.
I was thinking that a beam laser, also, could cut through any number of glass fibre guidance cables.
I was thinking that a beam laser, also, could cut through any number of glass fibre guidance cables.
Was thinking more along the lines of electromagnetic pulse weapons -- not jamming, but damaging electronics. An analogue to Traveller's particle accelerator weapons, in a sense. But smaller
mike wightman
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There are several soon to be operational directied energy weapons that can be used against drones. And several already in operation
One subset transmits a cone of microwaves to scramble electronics, while the other uses a cone of radio waves...
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
One subset transmits a cone of microwaves to scramble electronics, while the other uses a cone of radio waves...
