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A publicar is a form of public transportation in the post-mortal world, a car that drives itself.

Description[]

Publicars are self-driven cars available to the public at points designated by the Thunderhead to supply the demand for transportation in a region. Upon entering the vehicle, the passenger is greeted by an AI, the passenger tells the vehicle the destination, and the car self-drives to it. After the ride is completed, publicars return to one of the designated points and await new passengers.

When a scythe uses a publicar, it recognizes them by a signal from their scythe rings, therefore disconnecting them from the grid, and the AI, a computerized program, takes over, as the Thunderhead cannot interfere with scythes.

Publicars have to be told the destination by the passenger or the destination can be preset if a person sent the publicar for someone else. Publicars read unsavories the "riot act" every time they enter one of the vehicles.

Publicars are not permitted on private roads without the owner's permission.[1]

Publicars are on the grid, their navigational data is dropped into the backbrain every 60 minutes.[2]

Trivia[]

  • Rowan Damisch had always wanted a car, but his parents did not see the point in buying him one since publicars were available.[2]
  • Rowan went to school using a publicar.[2]
  • Scythe Faraday sees publicars as an extravagance and prefers to take the bus.[2]
  • Citra Terranova used several publicars to escape the MidMerican Scythedom.[2]
  • The Toll recommended Ezra Van Otterloo to spray-paint a publicar in the middle of the night.[3]
  • The Thunderhead caused publicars to encircle Tonists, herding them like sheep when the Toll and his entourage were trying to bring Sibilants around.[3]

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