Vehicles & Drones

Vehicles

 * Self-Driving Mass Taxis
 * Short-Term Rentals and Public Transit are more popular than Owned Vehicles
 * Upright Transport Capsules (for single-person in-city mobility)
 * Nomadic & Migratory Lifestyles
 * Legacy Tech – popular with certain subcultures
 * Vehicles with clear exteriors or exterior projections on exterior (pseudo-invisibility)
 * Windowless vehicles with exterior projections on inner compartment (pseudo-windows)
 * Augmented visibility (exterior cam or dronecam data fed to HUD or AR-wearing driver)

Drones
Drones fall into the following classes:


 * Remote-Control Drones – remote human controller
 * Guided Drones - remote AI controller
 * Autonomous Drones – onboard Expert or Weak AI System
 * Intelligent Drones – onboard General AI System

While some drones carry passengers or cargo, strictly speaking they are controlled by a remote pilot or AI system (although some models permit manual override for in-vehicle pilots).

Those equipped with AI systems are often called “AutoDrones”. They are effectively vehicular robots. ScoutBots (used in both military and industrial service) are a well-known class of AutoDrone, as are some autonomous vehicles.


 * Drones equipped with cameras, sensors or weapons
 * RF Weapons = antidrone radio-frequency jammers
 * semi-autonomous drones for aerial displays
 * Drone Swarms

CargoBots
A specialized class of driverless vehicles used for hauling supermassive loads, typically used in construction work. When fully loaded, cargobots are so heavy that they must travel on special ceramic roads.

Delivery Drones
From hot food to raw materials for fabrication, most deliveries are handled by these driverless machines, either by air or on the ground. Some delivery drones are autonomous, but most are guided and monitored by AI dispatchers.

In some parts of town, it is common for houses and places of business to feature a special door, window or terrace to facilitate the comings and goings of delivery drones.

Home Security Drones
Can observe break-in attempts and follow intruder, etc.

SmartCrates & SmartPallets
Technically a specialized class of semi-autonomous robots with limited intelligence, these load-handling tools are used underwater or in microgravity environments to assist in the manual handling of heavy mass objects and payloads. The SmartCrate or pallet possesses its own microsensitive balancing, collision avoidance and position-adjustment systems, allowing a single person to handle extremely large items safely and with great precision.

SmartCrates and SmartPallets can be moved with human guidance or operated remotely. They are often used as “mobile toolboxes” for EVA and underwater maintenance tasks, and may be combined with other systems in a variety of ways.

Military & Paramilitary Drones
Military hardware ranges from tiny microdrones to human-sized warriors and large military vehicles. These systems possess advanced AI capable of learning by observation and modifying their own code. They can make command decisions – even kill decisions - without requiring human intervention.

Swarmachines
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MiniDrones
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MicroDrones
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