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It's pleasant to be able to see out, it's important for avoiding motion sickness for many people, and it helps you trust the vehicle is not going to drive you o
by eloff 9y ago
It's pleasant to be able to see out, it's important for avoiding motion sickness for many people, and it helps you trust the vehicle is not going to drive you off a cliff or into oncoming traffic. So, no, it's not a hard requirement, but I can't see a windowless car being a success.
- Splines 9y agoWhat's the engineering tradeoffs required for windows? Would eliminating windows result in a safer, cheaper car? Would projecting the outside world on the inside of a tin-can car meet the benefits ascribed to windows? (I could imagine some dystopian future where windowed cars are considered to be luxury items).
- roywiggins 9y ago> Would projecting the outside world on the inside of a tin-can car meet the benefits ascribed to windows The motion-sickness reducing benefits of staring at the horizon is usually ascribed to the horizon being very far away and not moving along with the car. Until your projections are holographic, it won't help.
- maxerickson 9y agoIt's probably not going to be cheaper in an interesting way. The up front cost of a vehicle is something like 1/3 of the cost per mile (probably less for commercially operated vehicles), so even a pretty big decrease in the purchase price will only have a moderate impact on overall cost.