New New York Streets

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I don't think this has been asked before so here goes. If all cars in NNY (not LA) are hover cars why does NNY still have paved streets? Parades? Also, what happened to street parking?

[Reply #1 on:]

Because it provides a path for the hovercars to follow. If there was no path, accident rates could be higher. (But that's just my guess.)

[Reply #2 on:]

also, people might have bikes, and it makes it easier for pedestrians because people could be picking them up in hovercar or something.

[Reply #3 on:]

Mmmm...hover Segways maybe. Never see Amy's Thundercougarfalconbird parked around the PE building. Perhaps the Prof. leases out singularites.

[Reply #4 on:]

Amy has a Beta-Romeo (or something like that).

[Reply #5 on:]

thats the 1

[Reply #6 on:]

Now I remember, the Thundercougarfalconbird is what the salesman trys to get Fry to buy. Leela drives a purple, center-steering wheel car in "When Aliens Attack". Again a bit of a mystery where it's parked.

[Reply #7 on:]

Didn't the car get blown up?

[Reply #8 on:]

Yeah, It got destroyed.

[Reply #9 on:]

It's probably insured through an insurance company. Amy's Dad probably owns a few. Repaired/replaced. It would probably take a rich father to insure someone like Amy given she's a such a klutz.

[Reply #10 on:]

do any other PE workers have cars. besides bender when he has that cool little blue car for his head

[Reply #11 on:]

Other than the purple car Leela drives (looks like a Chrysler), there's the multi-pod car Zoidberg probably rents on his home world. Also saw one on a poster behind Fry in the apartment last night in "Godfellas". Looked like a hover Ferrari.

[Reply #12 on:]

Well, Fry had a VW van once.

[Reply #13 on:]

I think he a Gremlin or Pacer too, like the one the drove through the museum wall.

[Reply #14 on:]

That wasn't his, it was his... "girlfriend's"

[Reply #15 on:]

Mmm yeah, sorry.

[Reply #16 on:]

My Guesses:

#1- WIZARDS!

#2- They had to much cement.

#3- They still have regular cars as well as hover cars. And they do still have non-hover cars. I think Eyedol's idea is the best.

[Reply #17 on:]

he also had his old chevvy nova

[Reply #18 on:]

 

Originally posted by Ranadok:
That wasn't his, it was his... "girlfriend's"

Actually, it wasnt hers; it was her father's.  Also, she wasn't really his girlfriend; she just never closed her curtains.

[Reply #19 on:]

Hey, I knew when to stop telling the story.

[Reply #20 on:]

it drains the cars power to fly, there fore they can only fly for limited amounts of time. but hover about 30cm above the ground doesn't drain the cars power

[Reply #21 on:]

Hovering high or low would take the same amount of energy. Moving up or laterally would require higher energy. If it were a true antigravity it would also have to adjust for the centrifugal force of the planet's rotation in order not to be flung into space (common hover ed. mistake). But still there aren't a lot of parked cars, parking spaces, or garages in the show. The streets may be there because of the highway lobby or made of recycled chewing gum.

[Reply #22 on:]

Ooh, I think I have the answer.  It's so they can have sidewalks for the pedestrians, and the streets are there so Rudy Giuliani's head can crack down on jaywalking.  It makes perfect sense!

Edited, because I spelled 'Giuliani' wrong.  I know this, because he was on some mafia documentary on the History Channel.

[Reply #23 on:]

Why can't they have parades?

[Reply #24 on:]

The heads?

[Reply #25 on:]

Well, some people are still alive with their heads attached to their body.

[Reply #26 on:]

Hop, hop, roll, roll, hmmm...

[Reply #27 on:]

because som really poor ppl could only afford cars on wheels. in 1 episode fry gets an old beat up volkswagen and falls off a hoverbridge

[Reply #28 on:]

if it's for cars on wheels, how come in "The Honking" they all sounded so surprised when bender was describing the "horrible" non-hovercar that ran him over that had some kind of "rubber wheels".

[Reply #29 on:]

he said round rubber feet

[Reply #30 on:]

well yes ok rubber feet, been a long time since i saw that episode =P

[Reply #31 on:]

Yeh, but no one seemed to surprised by the VW van in "Bendin' in the Wind."  My contention is, poor people and hippies still drive wheeled cars in the year 3000, so they still have paved roads.  Also, how the hell else would people know what street they lived on?

[Reply #32 on:]

yeah and hovercars also use the streets sometimes, at least for parking (Put your head on my shoulder). and if there were no streets would they just put 1 sidewalk between buildings? cant imagine that would be very nice. i think its just like a tradition... there have always been streets (somehow i dont think the government cares enough about poor people and hippies to keep the streets just for them).

edit: oh and about the VW van, actually they were sort of surprised, not by the wheels though ("where's the device that lets you speed and slow the passage of time?" "under the seat" *pulls out a bong*    )

[Reply #33 on:]

It wasn't a bong! The script specifically said it was a "crazy bottle"

[Reply #34 on:]

Cities have been closing off streets and turning them into "pedestrian malls" for some time now. I wonder if internal combusion cars would be considered an eco-friendly alternative in a thousand years compared to what hover cars leave behind.

[Reply #35 on:]

look closer
some streets in NNYhave parking meters

[Reply #36 on:]

Well, that makes sense.  Even if you're hovering above the street, you still have to park somewhere to get into the lobby of wherever you're going.  And free parking in NY?  Never!

[Reply #37 on:]

One thing I've noticed about this is that some people drive hovercars on the streets, and some drive them in the sky.  So there's traffic in space, the streets, and the sky. 

[Reply #38 on:]

I don't think poor people and hippies would have cars with wheels because in "Mothers Day" everyone was surprised when Fry described a 'wheel'

[Reply #39 on:]

i think there are no normal cars left in nny. they're all hover.