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It's a real pity that sleeping in your car is illegal in most cities. Otherwise, with free parking and high rent, I suppose that cars would become the pods ever
by timthelion 9y ago
It's a real pity that sleeping in your car is illegal in most cities. Otherwise, with free parking and high rent, I suppose that cars would become the pods everyone has been dreaming of.
- sova 9y agoCapsuleHouse
- vilhelm_s 9y agoPresumably parking would not remain free though.
- timthelion 9y agoThis would be another advantage to my plan. Maybe free parking would become a thing of the past and you could perhaps even get rid of all the parking lots and stop having a concrete death valley in front of every building in America.
- santaclaus 9y ago> It's a real pity that sleeping in your car is illegal in most cities. Is that the case? I know it’s legal in NYC (much to the consternation of yuppies in the upper west side). In Oakland people sleep in cars and rvs parked on major roads, same in San Francisco.
- IgorPartola 9y agoI don’t think I’ve ever dreamt of living in 60 cubic feet of space. Maybe instead we should, I don’t know, create more places where people want to be, rather than trying to cram everyone in the world into NYC and the Bay Area. One of the biggest resources in the US is cheap abundant land. Why the hell are we concentrating all the talent in a few square miles of it?
- leggomylibro 9y agoBecause all the talent likes being able to walk places in a few minutes. I propose jetpacks, to vastly extend peoples' comfortable walking radii.
- codemac 9y agoHate to sound like the nerd... but segways are freaking fantastic. If you haven't ridden one, go on a "segway" tour of your city. Super fun, and you can see just how simple and mobile you are. Completely replaces most small bus hops.
- dreamcompiler 9y agoNot denying what you wrote, but a folding bike is cheaper, probably more portable (i.e. you can take it on a plane with you) and it doesn't need recharging.
- vilhelm_s 9y agoOr we could all just live in cars! It all fits.
- IgorPartola 9y agoIs that really the number one priority for talented people? Walking? Besides, we have a dozen modes of transportation already available: cars, buses, motorcycles, segways, bicycles, subways, trams, taxis, powered walkways, rollerblades, skateboards, hover boards, ATVs, skis, sleds, horses, etc. How exactly is walking the panacea of transportation? So much so that people would be willing to live in cars?
- santaclaus 9y ago> Is that really the number one priority for talented people? Walking? Just walking? Maybe not. But fast commutes to work, easy access to restaurants, easy access to culture, lots of things to do nearby, large dating pools? Most certainly. > cars, buses, motorcycles, segways, bicycles, subways, trams, taxis, powered walkways, rollerblades, skateboards, hover boards, ATVs, skis, sleds, horses All of which take lots of time! People pay lots of money to live in certain neighborhoods (think Williamsburg and the like) for a reason.
- newman8r 9y agowith a fully autonomous car you could probably just keep driving slowly in loops while you sleep
- netsharc 9y agoMy startup is called Druber, the elevator pitch is: like Uber for people who sleep in their cars. Use it to find and hire a driver to drive slowly while you sleep, so you don't break the law. Or I guess the driver can just sit in thr parked car and watch for authorities, if they knock, the driver can claim s/he's just about to depart, and their friend (you) just went out like a light.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agohttps://www.bigissue.com/news/londons-homeless-boarding-night-bus/ https://www.bigissue.com/news/londons-homeless-boarding-nigh...
- nradov 9y agoSleeping in a car for a long period of time increases the risk of leg edema. In most vehicles you can't lay flat and so the blood pools in your lower legs. Not good for veins, especially for older people.