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features, but Spencer still
thought it was the best, until the engine finally expired, due to
lack of proper maintenance. Spencer insisted on having the engine
rebuilt, over purchasing a new vehicle, but with proper persuasion
from Jade and the fact that it would have cost him more credits to
rebuild the engine, then if he just purchased a new vehicle, he
decided to go with the latter of the two.
    “ Yes, I will drive the car thank you, that’s
why I’m called the driver, sometimes I ask myself who controls
whom, the humans or the technology?”
    “ Understood, Mr. Cade I will disengage the
auto driver.”
    “ Dad, why don’t you just let the car drive,
why do you always have to fight with technology?”
    “ Jade, do we really have to go there
again?”
    “ No, no, you’re right, never
mind,” said Jade realizing what she almost started.
    Spencer drove down the ramp and
out of the parking garage, while he received the updated traffic
report from his vehicle.
    “ I recommend you avoid Highway 347 near County
Route 83 Patchogue Mount Sinai Road due to a traffic accident,
expected delay thirty one minutes,” said the vehicle.
    “ Thank you, navigation off,” replied Spencer
as he drove into the busy streets of lower Manhattan.
    As soon as Spencer cleared the parking garage, he
turned off the engine and quickly switched over to magnetic
levitation.
    “ I don’t want to be fined by
those Enviro cops,” said Spencer as he looked over at Jade and
realized she was not paying any attention to what he was saying
because she was too enthralled with her music.
    “ Radio, talk show, educational,” requested
Spencer as the vehicle processed the command and quickly scanned
the thousands of channels to meet his request. As soon as a
suitable channel was located, the on board computer responded back,
“Our History with Technology and the Environment, brought to you by
Public Radio.”
    “ Sounds good, play it,” ordered
Spencer.
    “ Welcome to another episode of Our History
with Technology and the Environment. This week we will be talking
about magnetic levitation and how it came to be. Magnetic
levitation technology has been around since the twenty first
century. Magnets have a north and south pole and when the north
pole of one magnet encounters the south pole of another magnet,
both these magnets attract one another. If you switch this and
bring both types of poles together like north and north, the
magnets repel one another. New York City and other major cities
throughout the world ended up building magnetized coils in the
roadways, which repels the large magnets in vehicles allowing the
vehicle to levitate approximately four inches off the ground. The
biggest obstacle for engineers was to create a dampening field
around the roadways so the magnetic force would not interfere with
other devices. Seventeen years ago, the International Government
passed a law stating if a city has more than five hundred thousand
people, only vehicles with magnetic hovering capabilities could
operate inside those cities, excluding any highways. This was one
of many attempts to reduce air pollution in larger cities. The
International Government expanded the powers of the Environmental
Protection Agency and created Environmental Law Enforcement
Officers, AKA Enviro Officers, to assist in enforcing laws of this
nature. These Enviro Officers work very similar to other law
enforcement agencies throughout the world. One of their newer
responsibilities is to investigate any type of biological
outbreaks, natural or manufactured.”
    “ Dad, what are you listening to?” asked Jade
as she manually reduced the volume.
    “ Wow, did you see what you just did?” asked
Spencer.
    “ What?”
    “ You used your hand instead of your voice when
it came to telling the onboard computer what to do,”
    Jade smirked then asked, “So, Dad, can we go look at
new holoscreens after I get out of school today?”
    “ No, but why don’t you try and fix our