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I once took SF -> NYC red-eyes every Sunday for four months in a lie-flat seat (and back home every Thursday). All my friends and fellow consultants pitied my t
by ngoel36 10y ago
I once took SF -> NYC red-eyes every Sunday for four months in a lie-flat seat (and back home every Thursday). All my friends and fellow consultants pitied my tremendous commute, but truth told I loved it - it was the furthest to time travel I had ever come.
I hardly remember a single flight - a Dramamine, eye mask, and ear plugs allowed me to pass out before take off and wake up in Manhattan.
In sum, I'd absolutely take this - if I could board at 10th & Market around midnight and wake up in Santa Monica bright and early, I've wasted absolutely no waking hours (as opposed to at least 3.5 hours wasted end-to-end: Uber from home to SFO, security, taxiing, plane, taxiing, Uber from LAX to destination).
I, of course, can fall asleep just about anywhere - I can see how this would be somebody else's worst nightmare if they couldn't.
- GuiA 10y agoI hope I can one day have a self driving car show up at my doorstep in San Francisco on a Friday night, hop in, fall asleep, and wake up in Seattle, at a friend's doorstep, on the Saturday morning - and do the reverse to head back to work on Monday. Even just sleeping in a car instructed to drive along the coast all night long would be delightful.
- nerfhammer 10y agoThis is why everyone is going to live in a self-driving RV. The first thing that everyone is going to want in a self-driving car is a bed. And after that, a bathroom. Soon everyone is going to live in an RV in their employers' parking lot, occasionally to leave on short trips.
- istorical 10y agoThis is exactly what I believe too. I lurk reddit.com/r/vandwelling and there's some really interesting stuff there sometimes, but I truly believe that once the self-driving car revolution takes hold, you'll see a manufacturer make a a van that has a queen sized bed, a shower and toilet with a large water tank, that is largely soundproof, and has enough power for desktop PC usage, and you'll eventually see a huge adoption.
- bbcbasic 10y agoIt could cross with Tinder and Uber so that you could hail a ride, a ride and a nights kip all at once.
- nerfhammer 10y ago> a nights kip Is that what the kids are calling it now?
- dcposch 10y agolol no
- J-dawg 10y ago> And after that, a bathroom. If we can automate driving, I hope we can also automate the chemical toilet emptying process. Seriously though, this is an awesome vision of the future. If you expanded your idea to blog post length I for one would love to read it.
- stephengillie 10y agoFor your fantasy's sake, I'd hope these cars can do 180mph safely. You're more likely to spend all day Saturday watching Oregon and NorCal zoom past at 60mph, and arrive that night. Source: Drove UW-UCB once while in college.
- stuaxo 10y agoCould almost just do with a train.
- barsonme 10y agoIt's about a 13 hour drive from Seattle to UCB. A lot of I-5 (sans Oregon) is 70 mph, so the flow of traffic is 80 or more. When I drove down with a friend we left Puyallup, Washington at about 11 AM and made it to Los Angeles by 4 AM the following day. UCB is 3 hours before LA, and we had to stop for > 30 minutes due to construction on I-5 before Castaic. I think it's doable even without super fast cars. If you leave at 8 PM you'll get there at around 8 or 9 AM.
- beachstartup 10y ago> wake up in Santa Monica bright and early the best urban place to wake up and work in the entire country, in my opinion!
- krashidov 10y agoCan you elaborate on why you believe this? I've never been there.
- beachstartup 10y agobecause it's real nice.