What are your thoughts on the Technology differences between our world and Car Wars?

[harmyn]

I started a new roleplaying campaign this past weekend set in the world of Car Wars/Autoduel. We adapted the Mini Six RPG for our characters and are using a slightly tweaked version of the Compendium v2.5 for vehicle construction. I also set the start clock of the campaign at 2035 and am using the straight up timeline from CW with just a few minor additions/tweaks to it.

This got me to thinking though about how different our world is from theirs. Not just on the oil front, other things too.

First and biggest is cell phones, in our 2012 there's basically nationwide/internation cell phone networks giving 3g to 4g internet connection speeds, texting, and easy calling to anyone else in the world. Now in Car Wars, there would be no nationwide cell systems. The towers needed wouldn't have been built across the rural areas, and those that were would have been detroyed by biker gangs and bandits. Why let your potential victims have easy communications with the outside world. So then I was wondering, would cities have small local cell networks? I haven't decided yet myself.

Also, the internet is very different. Because of The Worm and rampant hacking as they describe it, the internet would also be very different I imagine. As a friend pointed out, the attitude towards wireless networks and linking systems is a lot like the attitude in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica because of the Cylon Wars.

So what are your thoughts on how our modern tech would be different in the war torn, famine plagued, world of Car Wars?

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As an aside, for those interested, we used Action, Operations, Savvy, and Tech for the attributes, gave everyone 11D in starting attribute dice and used 10 skills under each based off the Car Wars skill list. For those who don't know this is a modified D6 system similar to what was used in the old West End Games Star Wars game.