No not another "I want a vehicle" thread so please continue ??

Some one wants a dirt bike/giddy up buttercup/flying deathclaw that's cool, but I talking pre-war, before the bombs. I went through a stage where I put a round (sometimes even 2!) into every car/bike/truck I saw to make it explode before some other b*#tard did after getting blow to bits a couple of times. Now that got me thinking, if these 200 year old cars explode that easily, with that much force, they must've been hell to drive? Surely a decent shunt in the rear end (insert crude humour here ??) would've incinerated everyone within a couple hundred meters and start chain reactions like in-game? I've blown up whole stretches of highway like this when I got access to certain factions air & artillery (sorry not sure what really constitutes a spoiler as I'm new) just for fun and easy to imagine a decent highway speed pile up. Having been in a couple of 100kmh + car accidents, the forces are pretty severe, at least a lot worse than a random .38 round into the boot!

So Im thinking maybe there was no war. It's all a plot by Corvega to avoid a massive class action by all the survivors! Someone in down-town "wherever" ran a red light, started a world wide chain reaction and blew the planet to kingdom come. Maybe? Probably not lol but still I'd rather have walked to work in a lead suit or just worked from home, 500km from the nearest road.

Maybe, but you also have to factor in 200 years of decay. Safety features being corroded, metal protection being worn down, the (hopefully) relatively stable nuclear materials decaying and becoming unstable. It's probably similar to our batteries now. For the most part they are safe but once they've been corroded for a while you run the risk of leaking acid and/or possible explosions based upon the battery in question and the degree of damage.

Too true. A lot would've rusted, broken down for sure. But I'm thinking highway speed collisions even when new. One I was in the front of the car got shortened by half a meter and parts of the engine got pushed through the fire wall into the back of the dash. The FO future cars don't seem to have any modern inclusions like intrusion bars, crumple zones etc they're all clunky 50's style. Modern day cars have a big highway stack and engines get ripped out, cars torn in half when they hit a tree or crushed flat in an head on with a truck. I'm just thinking if the old .38 makes them explode in a nuclear fireball after popping one into the general area of the fuel source, a big crash maybe would've been catastrophic?

But thats why he brought up the decay, now in the wasteland, 200 years without maintenance they are that sensitive, back pre war times, when they where kept tip top, they where more less likely to go boom.

Less likely? Lol you're driving an atom bomb baby! I just think if you've had a few too many drinks and take out a tree or a truck at 100kmh + you're maybe in for a bad night. Riding one of those modern looking stump pullers would be even more dangerous. Motorbikes pretty much disintegrate no matter what they hit at high speed. Big cruisers fall over just looking at a corner. Core breach would be difficult to avoid. Must say I'm really only interested due to my own experiences with cars and intersecting objects at high speed. Realise there is probably a whole bunch of lore related to how every day joe didn't blow his neighbourhood up by reversing into the letterbox lol

Well there is the fact that technically nuclear plants can't explode like a nuke bomb to begin with, despite what fiction might suggest. *shrugs*

I also can't help but wonder what my character would've thought when he saw the first one explode like that 200 years after he used one to drive the missus and Shaun down to Concord for some milk! "Holy sh*t! Never knew it could've done that!" Science!