This would be pretty wild, it's mentioned on a eurogamer video I think the most recent fallout one. During the character creation/perk video before the pip boy is pulled up look at the icons on the radar and there is what appears to be a car icon....very interesting

That sounds quite ludicrous. How does a car icon hint at a house that can be driven?

It doesn't, sadly most kids listen and believe everything they hear on YouTube. Just like Fallout 4 was gonna be in San Fran lol.

just the messenger lol...and the drivable house part was mentioned in the eurogamer video and the info was taken from the prima game guide, I'd post a link but my phone is [censored]

Winnebago confirmed

I just took a look back at the character creation video...

Yeah, there is an odd-looking icon on the compass at the very beginning of the video just before he brings up his pip-boy.

... I'm not sure what that is, though. I can certainly see how that could be a car, but it also just kind of looks like a blobby shape to me - could be a different sort of waypoint, a special location, one of your settlements, who knows?

There was that article a bit ago where the reporter was kind of running with the idea of being able to make just about anything with the settlement crafting tools. I can't remember the exact quote, but I thought it was pretty clear he was just letting his imagination run wild with the possibilities - I certainly didn't get the sense that anyone at Bethesda had told him "oh by the way - you can put wheels on your houses and drive them around." Not to mention the article was just a news story summing up information we already had access to. Basically "hey, I watched the newest videos on Bethesda.net and now I'm going to tell you what I think about those."

Chances are you can do some really cool stuff with the crafting. We don't know how "deep" the system is going to be, and of course a lot of the fun with something like that is players coming up with functions and uses the developers of the tools hadn't even thought of. So who knows what people might be able to come up with?

On the other hand - we (to my knowledge) haven't even seen "wheels" as a craft-able object in the settlement interface. So that would be kind of a limiting factor right off the bat. You can hook objects up to computer consoles and get some options to tinker with those, but it remains to be seen what objects have which properties to tinker with. We know we can change the colors of lights and have things turn on and off, and maybe there's some basic programming you could do (or someone's going to figure out how to link a bunch of consoles together to essentially get the same effect.) Beyond that, it's all pretty much speculation at this point, though.

This is the icon for VANS, no?

Isn't that the corvega car factory icon that was shown at quakecon?

I'm with Cannibal on this, I think it is the VANS icon showing shortest path to our current quest.

The bit on driveable houses was just sloppy journalism on Prima's part, the author failed to clarify that he was merely speculating or saying it in jest and people are now running with it...or...driving with it.

This. It was pure, stupid, speculation. Something that should have been clarified.

Hah, a drivable house lol

There is a red car with perfect red paint condition when the Player Character (PC) gets in a vertibird and the vertibird lifts off into the air in a alley way.

There is also a perfect condition red painted car in one of the parts where raiders invade your settlement in the day time in the Bethesda Softworks E3 2015 YouTube video. That was not there in the night time or something like that.

Oh saw that last month,i assume that its a lootable car where there's loot in the trunk like houses not drivables.

Speculation: That car might be the equivalent to Skyrims horses. Just a means of getting around the map faster. And thinking about it, it wouldn′t be the first time we are able to drive a car in the Fallout universe.

It was confirmed in an interview that there are no land vehicles in Fallout 4 for us to drive. The Character article on Bethesda.net confirms the function of the VANS perk. And the bit in that article about drivable houses is a load of crap, possibly inspired by one of John Lennon's acid trips. We won't be able to drive a damn house.

Is a drivable house a land vehicle if it's stopped? Then it's just a house... and those are confirmed!

But drivable cars isn't confirmed, imagine trying to drive a car in all of the rubble and decimated roads and landscapes, and then imagine being a game developer trying to get that to work plus all of the physics/collision issues/etc. I'm 99% sure it isn't happening. Edit: The only way I'd imagine cars being used, if at all, is for fast travel without the actual animation of them driving, but considering how many locations will not be accessible by car this is also highly unlikely.

Why drive cars anyways?

The vertibird will most likely transport you to key location with minigun mounted on the side,better then cars.

Oooh mounted mini gun car.

Like in Terminator 1.

It may be a kind of taxi service like it was with Skyrim, you pay the man and hop into a car and it drives you into a major city or location you havent discovered yet. I bet someone will make a mod that shows car driving the whole way... just like skyrim.

It's actually a driveable land schooner .. but just for one mission when you have to chase down a land shark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_YHgo_HN4

And its gone at 22:30

Better quality.