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Imagine vanlife in a self-driving house-on-wheels. That is my plan for the next phase of my life. I’ve been saving every penny I can for when the first self-dri

Imagine vanlife in a self-driving house-on-wheels. That is my plan for the next phase of my life. I’ve been saving every penny I can for when the first self-driving RV hits the market.

armenarmen 9y ago
I'm excited to see what self driving RVs do to the housing market in the bay and other high rent markets. Waking up infront of your office, then at the end of the day going "home" and an hour or so later being up the coast without leaving your couch.
- narrowrail 9y ago
  I am deeply skeptical you will ever experience such a thing.
- pilom 9y ago
  Gas is too expensive to move a house that way. Most RVs get significantly less than 10mpg. Ours gets about 7. Even if it drove itself, there is no way that I would want it moving that much per day.
  - literallycancer 9y ago
    Converted bus shouldn't consume much more than a normal bus. From what I understand, a public transportation bus should be somewhere between 30-50 liters per 100 km. Which isn't that bad, considering you could drive like 30 km to some nice place out of the city, and maybe further away on the weekend. Even if you spend 20$ on gas every day, it's just a 600$ a month, which is much better than 3000$ for an apartment? Living in something like seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYryxKfrUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYryxKfrUc doesn't seem so bad. Having to drive every day is annoying, but with a plug-in self driving computer (hopefully in the next 20 years?), it would be quite nice.
  - oldmancoyote 9y ago
    I van-life you typically drive somewhere. Park it, and stay for a while, possibly weeks or even months.
yardie 9y ago
You can do that now. Get a sailboat. Autopilot does most of the work and you only need to pop your head up to watch for boats and trim for the wind. We read a lot of books, watched movies, and cooked across the globe at a slow, steady 6kts/hour
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > a slow, steady 6kts/hour Pedantic, perhaps, but that's just 6kt. 6kt/hr is constant acceleration; 1 kt = 1 nmi/hr.
  - yardie 9y ago
    I need to get back on the water. I'm starting to mix up my units and forgetting what the different lines are called.
- emmelaich 9y ago
  Have you done it? Requires a LOT more expertise than a van. Ask @lutusp about it: https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html
  - yardie 9y ago
    Uh, yes. 10000nm in fact. And I read his book and he also didn't have a lot of experience at first.
    - emmelaich 9y ago
      NM I hope because 0.01 mm is not very far :-P

Imagine vanlife in a self-driving house-on-wheels. That is my plan for the next phase of my life. I’ve been saving every penny I can for when the first self-driving RV hits the market.

armenarmen 9y ago

I'm excited to see what self driving RVs do to the housing market in the bay and other high rent markets. Waking up infront of your office, then at the end of the day going "home" and an hour or so later being up the coast without leaving your couch.

narrowrail 9y ago
I am deeply skeptical you will ever experience such a thing.
pilom 9y ago
Gas is too expensive to move a house that way. Most RVs get significantly less than 10mpg. Ours gets about 7. Even if it drove itself, there is no way that I would want it moving that much per day.
- literallycancer 9y ago
  Converted bus shouldn't consume much more than a normal bus. From what I understand, a public transportation bus should be somewhere between 30-50 liters per 100 km. Which isn't that bad, considering you could drive like 30 km to some nice place out of the city, and maybe further away on the weekend. Even if you spend 20$ on gas every day, it's just a 600$ a month, which is much better than 3000$ for an apartment? Living in something like seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYryxKfrUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUYryxKfrUc doesn't seem so bad. Having to drive every day is annoying, but with a plug-in self driving computer (hopefully in the next 20 years?), it would be quite nice.
- oldmancoyote 9y ago
  I van-life you typically drive somewhere. Park it, and stay for a while, possibly weeks or even months.

yardie 9y ago

You can do that now. Get a sailboat. Autopilot does most of the work and you only need to pop your head up to watch for boats and trim for the wind. We read a lot of books, watched movies, and cooked across the globe at a slow, steady 6kts/hour

dragonwriter 9y ago
> a slow, steady 6kts/hour Pedantic, perhaps, but that's just 6kt. 6kt/hr is constant acceleration; 1 kt = 1 nmi/hr.
- yardie 9y ago
  I need to get back on the water. I'm starting to mix up my units and forgetting what the different lines are called.
emmelaich 9y ago
Have you done it? Requires a LOT more expertise than a van. Ask @lutusp about it: https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html
- yardie 9y ago
  Uh, yes. 10000nm in fact. And I read his book and he also didn't have a lot of experience at first.
  - emmelaich 9y ago
    NM I hope because 0.01 mm is not very far :-P