Road dueling has been presented as the opposite of arena dueling... it's fighting in the wild, self defense combat on the open highway. You might get seen by a news helicopter and made famous.
A lot of people have cars with guns and not everyone will want to use them strictly for commuting. What if there's a sort of "backyard wrestling" of autoduelling... two (or more!) people find a disused stretch of road and shoot it out. Could be a "joust" type as they charge at each other or a drag race with guns, first one to make it to the finish line alive wins. That could be more of what BLUD does, differentiating itself from the AADA.
A related idea is about cameras. The assumptions about media in Car Wars were of the 80s... TV helicopters and tall towers with cameras on them. But now we have NFL hemet cameras and dash cameras. In Autoduel America, there's a market for good, violent footage.
Given how small and cheap cameras and memory are, I can see every car sold having a number of built-in cameras to cover every side of your vehicle. A high and low one on the front and back, window ones on the sides. Not only useful for dueling (especially when shooting behind you) but also for recording and publicizing your combats.
Alternate take on road dueling and the media
A lot of people have cars with guns and not everyone will want to use them strictly for commuting. What if there's a sort of "backyard wrestling" of autoduelling... two (or more!) people find a disused stretch of road and shoot it out. Could be a "joust" type as they charge at each other or a drag race with guns, first one to make it to the finish line alive wins. That could be more of what BLUD does, differentiating itself from the AADA.
A related idea is about cameras. The assumptions about media in Car Wars were of the 80s... TV helicopters and tall towers with cameras on them. But now we have NFL hemet cameras and dash cameras. In Autoduel America, there's a market for good, violent footage.
Given how small and cheap cameras and memory are, I can see every car sold having a number of built-in cameras to cover every side of your vehicle. A high and low one on the front and back, window ones on the sides. Not only useful for dueling (especially when shooting behind you) but also for recording and publicizing your combats.
