Imagine The Walking Dead started in 50 years from now. The way things are going now, picture this scenario:

>A survivor is walking down a lonesome road.
>They arive at a small resort and there’s a car covered in dust and dirt in the parking lot.
>They approach the car and check whether it still has some bio fuel left in the tank.
>Still plenty.
>They look around spotting a decayed body close by.
>They search the body and are lucky to find a ‘keyless’ key belonging to the car.
>There are no door handles and the battery inside the key corroded away.
>They break the glass and open the door from the inside.
>Finally inside, there’s still no way to start the engine without the key.
>They have an idea.
>The digital wrist watch on the body should have the same battery as the key.
>After a bit of tinkering with some tools they get the key working again.
>They press the ignition button.
>The displays light up but the engine remains quiet.
>The displays show error messages:

ERROR CODE: ND47089
Tire pressure sensor subscription expired
Please schuedule service or enter payment information
Engine start failed

>MFW

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    They’ll be dragging classic cars out of people’s garages and sheds.

    If you were going to be realistic about this, it would be old, mechanical injection diesel engines still going long after the apocalypse. And bicycles, of course.

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      10 hours ago

      If you are being realistic, your best shot is probably EVs and having solar panels, those can maybe last about 20 years.

      Diesel and Petrol will go bad in a year.

      Either way you are on a finite resource, so the actual best bet is having horses

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        9 hours ago

        You think you’re going to drive anywhere 2 years after the apocalypse?

        After a winter or two, between abandoned vehicles and lack of maintenance, the roads are going to be impossible to navigate for any distance that you couldn’t just walk or bike.

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          Depends where you are, in my neck of the woods there are plenty of roads that have been largely abandoned for 20 plus years and are still drivable. Not a comfy ride but still a drive none the less.

          Most road damage comes from being driven on so assuming it doesn’t get undermined most would still be usable even ten years after abandonment, not factoring in getting buried or flooded.

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        It depends, because if the car breaks down, you will need parts to fix it. Hopefully parts you can get off another car of similar make. Also older cars can use universal parts, newer cars are more heavily proprietary, so electric may not be the way to go for longterm use.

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        10 hours ago

        Diesel lasts longer then a year. If you can get a commune going, you can grow diesel fuel from seed oil, but only with older diesel. Not that you’d want to direct too much food resources to transportation, but if you have enough farm land, diesel tractors are much more common then electric and easier to work on.

        You can also run modified gas engines to run off of Wood Gas and wood could be scavenged from most places. Probably the best option for any fast scouting operations, although you would need to let the system idle. The start up process takes some time.

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              He got a used tractor and 2 normal-sized unopened barrels of diesel, both manufactured in the 1970s, during the early 1990s privatization of Czechoslovak collective farms. We don’t use the tractor very much (it overheats after about an hour but that’s still more than enough time to plow our little field or haul a wagon) so one barrel is still more than half full. It takes 10+ years to empty a tank.