
They don't universally just praise every tiny piece of pre-war tech. They cloister dangerous tech away from the public. The scene was dumb as fuck either way.
It wasn't a fusion powered car, it looked like it was just a normal gasoline powered one. If it was a nuclear one, it would have had a much bigger explosion like the one at Novac
Episode was kind of boring. I mean I guess the radscorpion fight was cool but the BoS stuff didn't make any sense to me. The pit fight was retarded with Maximus in the middle getting his ass kicked for 10 minutes then overpowering the giant swede at the end to win the fight. Why were they fighting anyway? Just a plot device to make Minimus into a tough guy? Seemed very poorly done.