Chapter Six
It seemed bizarre to Cherry that the autocars continued to run as normal through the wrecked, dying landscape. All you had to do was tell the vehicle the destination coordinates and it would take you there if it could, driving over the destroyed and broken remains of roadways.
Unless you knew for sure the route was safe, however, the endeavor was dangerous. If a crack yawned wide across a highway the cars’ proximity sensors might not detect it. They were made to detect obstacles, not absences. The vehicles could drive right up to a hole and tumble into it. In the days following the battle with the Scythians, the autocars—conveying those brave enough to venture out of the refuges—had encountered road surfaces that were too uneven to cross. Then, cars would either stop and turn
