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Originally Posted by Lord Azagthoth
I always tell my players that with piloting you can control the height of your vehicle yourself while with driving you are ground bound. A hovercraft is also ground bound. Just have to figure out what type of controls a particular hovercraft uses to get the defaults right.
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Additionally:
Driving = Only gives you Yaw and Thrust authority (i.e., the ability to turn left or right and to accelerate/decelerate).
Piloting = Gives you more or less full Pitch, Roll, Yaw and Thrust authority (i.e., the ability to pitch the vehicle's nose up and down, pivot around its longitudinal axis, turn/skid left or right, as well as acceleration/deceleration).
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Originally Posted by Lord Azagthoth
As for halftracks, some used tank controls (US halftracks early WWII). Later they adapted this when they captured a German halftrack, which used a steering wheel).
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The most common US halftrack, the White M3 Scout Car, used a steering wheel and it was introduced in 1941. But, you're right that halftracks could go either way for controls, although a steering wheel arrangement seems to have been much more common.
Of course, prior to late TL6, there wasn't as much standardization for ground vehicle controls, so driving a particular model of car, halftrack, or tank might require a fairly long period of familiarization.