Today in the Trinity Universe: Skying in
Oct. 1st, 2007 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aberrantangelsA slice of parallel life, and the answer to one of the burning questions of the 21st century: where's my flying car?
There are four of them, close enough that Gordoni chides them about leaving handprints. The kids have never seen a Peregrine up close before; federal law, as policewoman Cheung reminds the kids, restricts them to law enforcement and emergency-vehicle use.
Gordoni assures one of the ones who gritches the loudest about this law, "You could be trusted with a flying car. You wouldn't crash into buildings or stall out at 300 feet or cross another car's flight path. But what about other people? You've seen what sort of maniacs manage to get driver's licenses.... Would you want those people up in the air?"
A boy with spiky blue hair brings up computer-assisted driving; the blond girl who was first to ask why private citizens don't get aircars allows as how "if a computer's doing all the work you can hardly call it driving". Cheung concurs with blondie's dislike of the prospect, and points out moreover that even in this Nova Age, computers do crash.
October 1
[Aberrant] In a Dunkin Donuts parking lot in Brooklyn, NYPD officers Gordoni and Cheung talk to some kids who are gawking at their Peregrine aircar.
There are four of them, close enough that Gordoni chides them about leaving handprints. The kids have never seen a Peregrine up close before; federal law, as policewoman Cheung reminds the kids, restricts them to law enforcement and emergency-vehicle use.
Gordoni assures one of the ones who gritches the loudest about this law, "You could be trusted with a flying car. You wouldn't crash into buildings or stall out at 300 feet or cross another car's flight path. But what about other people? You've seen what sort of maniacs manage to get driver's licenses.... Would you want those people up in the air?"
A boy with spiky blue hair brings up computer-assisted driving; the blond girl who was first to ask why private citizens don't get aircars allows as how "if a computer's doing all the work you can hardly call it driving". Cheung concurs with blondie's dislike of the prospect, and points out moreover that even in this Nova Age, computers do crash.
