No windshields
Bruce was busy designing the air cars for an upcoming trailer for Rome's Evolution and his designs had windshields. I told him there were no windshields on their vehicles. He said what about bugs? As I explained in a previous post, there are no insects on Deucado.
He countered with what about dirt and so forth. I told him the air cars didn't fly fast enough to whip up dirt. He insists there have to be windshields so I relented and said go ahead because, after all, he is doing all the work.
I did offer up an alternate possibility: that the air cars had a little tray of sunglasses or goggles that people put on upon stepping in but he shot that down too. In my mind, I always thought of the air cars as the just the modern version of the Flinstone's car (minus the feet):
See, no windshield!
He countered with what about dirt and so forth. I told him the air cars didn't fly fast enough to whip up dirt. He insists there have to be windshields so I relented and said go ahead because, after all, he is doing all the work.
I did offer up an alternate possibility: that the air cars had a little tray of sunglasses or goggles that people put on upon stepping in but he shot that down too. In my mind, I always thought of the air cars as the just the modern version of the Flinstone's car (minus the feet):
See, no windshield!
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Bruce wrote: "Yes, we are going to argue this until you relent!Where to begin. If there is dirt anywhere on the planet of Deucado plus wind, there will be dust. Even if you are traveling slowly, without eye pr..."
Agree to disagree but you deal with the real world and I deal with the world inside my head. And there are no bugs there! Eeww. Falling Skies. Eyeworms.
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Where to begin. If there is dirt anywhere on the planet of Deucado plus wind, there will be dust. Even if you are traveling slowly, without eye protection, dust will get in your eyes. A sufficiently large speck of dust will distract the 'driver' enough to lose control of the vehicle.
One of my biggest beefs with depicting human flight. Without eye protection, flight is dangerous to eyesight. Unless you are Superman, keeping your eyes open in a fast moving stream of air is difficult.
Windshields are necessary on the air cars.
Bruce