But I Don't Need One For This!

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“Be advised that, following the recent series of incidents involving Imperial tourists, the Hierarchy of Transportation has added the following vehicles to the list of those requiring licensure for use on public roadways: flitters, hovercraft, psychokinetic amplifiers, skyhooks, grav-boards, floater disks, spiderpalanquins, rollagons, subterrenes, miniblimps, unispheres, brachiators, all forms of self-mobile furniture (specifically including beds, couches, and chaises longue), walking mecha, tilt-turbine hats, bouncecraft, autokites, powered boots, vector-control harnesses, self-laying slidewalks, nanocreeks, spacer pikes, gengineered snakes, fusion-assisted pogo sticks, jet-powered rocket pants, and cyberfeet.”

“In addition, vehicles with no axles shall be deemed vehicles with two axles for the purposes of road tolls.”

– law enforcement bulletin, seen somewhere in the Expansion Regions

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2013/03/16/but-i-dont-need-one-for-this
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What’s a skyhook is in this context? The hereabouts version of a skyhook seems incredibly impractical to use as road vehicle.

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Not as in the megastructure, as in the children’s literature trope.

(Implemented as an invisible drone dangling a cable, probably, but it sure looks like you’re hanging from the sky.)

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+1 for pluralizing that correctly :slight_smile:.

+1 again just for the image.

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Foreseeing shenanigans like this are possibly why our freeways have a “if you are not on this whitelist, you need a permit” policy.

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I certainly hope so!