Iv'e always been confused by the lack of vehicles in Fallout. They have the prydwen running and a lot of high tech robots. But no cars.
Iv'e always been confused by the lack of vehicles in Fallout. They have the prydwen running and a lot of high tech robots. But no cars.
Like everyone said, cars exist canonically, but not in game. However, I'd like to make another point. Cars require quite a bit of infrastructure to be practical. You have to get all the resources, make a factory to mass produce them, then you need to make sure there are usable roads and enough fuel stations that are regularly supplied. Even if you have all that, you have to have a consumer base which needs cars and has enough resources to buy them. Based on most of the places we've explored, there just isn't the economic or industrial base to support an automotive industry.
I know canonically, the cities we visit are much larger than they appear in-game, but still, where would a resident of Diamond City go in a car? Most of Boston is a warzone with junk littering the roads, and it's not worth driving around inside Diamon City's walls. I haven't played 3, but I believe Megatron and Rivet City have similar issues.
New Vegas is actually big enough that you could use cars inside the Strip and the surrounding areas, but the roads are awful, and people seem to make do well enough by walking.
The only place I'm aware of that has the safety, stability, and infrastructure to make cars viable is the interior of the NCR, at least before whatever happened between New Vegas and the TV show.
^I’m sure that the NCR fixed up the roads in the main states if it, and if they take New Vegas and the dam then they’ll probably eventually fix the roads
No horses either, other than your feet, man’s oldest form of transportation got the old heave ho. Odd that Bethesda says they went extinct even though every other animal survived.
Gasoline breaks down quickly, and without the oil resources or refining capacity to create it anew, you can have all the cars you want, but they're not going anywhere.
(https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/how-long-can-gas-sit-in-a-car-before-it-goes-bad )
Also, @Repoman100 , I suddenly have a voice in my head saying, "Ride ze shoo-puff?"
Most cars have also completely rusted away in 200 years and the knowledge to restore them or make new ones has largely been lost.
Let's not forget the knowledge of how to even operate a vehicle is long gone as well. Nobody would know how to even turn one on, go, stop, steer, park, etc.
(Clearly, knowledge of safe driving is already pretty spotty even today. :) )
[P.S. Always thought it was odd that rad-deer survived, but horses did not.]
The NCR does have operational locomotives
Oddly enough, technology from the late 19th / early 20th centuries is far more sustainable than what came after. Any moderately knowledgable metalworker can make a steam engine, and make all the tools required to make the engine. That's not so much true with a Tesla roadster.
I think Australia got all the cars.
Fallout 2 and Tactics still exist man. There are cars, they just don't let you use them in later titles for simplicity and to save development time.
What do you think?