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To non-europeans in this thread: there already exists a transporation system in which you can sleep and get to your destination safely, it's called public trans

To non-europeans in this thread: there already exists a transporation system in which you can sleep and get to your destination safely, it's called public transportation.

jhbadger 5y ago
Lots of big cities outside Europe (even in America) have good public transit. I live in the Washington, DC area and don't drive but use the Metro, buses, and regional trains. However, I wouldn't recommend sleeping on them in America or elsewhere unless you don't mind your valuables going missing.
- upgrejd 5y ago
  I regularly slept on a bus when I commuted for ~40 minutes. Granted, that job lasted only 3 months but nothing got stolen. This was in Slovakia.
Spivak 5y ago
Right but the eventual benefit in that case is to eliminate the need for someone to drive the bus/train/boat/subway.
- pjc50 5y ago
  Already feasible: https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/docklands-light-railway-dlr-drivers-16597954 https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/docklands-li...
TacticalCoder 5y ago
Public transportation works for those living in cities. When you live in the countryside, which is still legally allowed, suddenly public transportation ain't that much of a solution anymore. Related to TFA: I got to experience the extra called "first class" on a Mercedes Class S (an entry level one, but it had that one extra), where the rear seat (on the passenger side) becomes basically an airliner first class bed (and there's no room for a passenger next to the driver anymore). That is what I call a car I can sleep in and when I'll have a self-driving car, that's the kind of "bed" I'll want. I hope resourceful engineers working on self-driving cars think about comfort and get to experience that "first class" extra that the class S offers (not that Class S cars are my thing: they're not but, darn, was that bed good for a car).
- MikusR 5y ago
  To non-europeans in this thread: public transportation is also a thing for those living in the countryside.
  - Akronymus 5y ago
    As a european living in the countryside: Public transportation works really well. You can reasonably commute at 50% speed of a car in the worst case in most situation IMO. In non-countryside areas, public transportation often outpaces cars.
pjc50 5y ago
You can sleep on public transportation and get to some destination, but you have to make sure you wake up at the right time if you want to get to a specific one :) (Bonus points if that was the last train and now you can't get back until morning. Double bonus points if they forgot to check and you've woken up in the depot)
- nradov 5y ago
  There's an alarm clock on your mobile phone.
  - bagacrap 5y ago
    buses take an unpredictable amount of time to get to their destination. I've tried location based alarms and they failed me.
  - NullPrefix 5y ago
    Until you oversleep it and be woken up by the driver in the bus park.
  - nitroll 5y ago
    Most alarms wake you at a certain time, not a certain location.
betwixthewires 5y ago
The arrogance it takes to leave a comment like this. Many people that live in the US, Canada, Australia, Russia and others don't live in densely packed cities and suburbs in countries you can drive across in an afternoon. Some of us live in towns with less than ten thousand people, hours from a population center with more than 100,000. Some of us live in towns with a few hundred. I've driven through towns with populations in the single digits. It's autonomous to you, but someone else is driving it. There are whole teams of people who keep those systems going for you. That's a solution? Just because you outsource your driving to someone that makes less money than you doesn't make you better than everyone else. You ignore your externalities and pretend it is a sign of superiority and sophistication. Imagine someone talking about loneliness and ways to alleviate it and someone replies "that's easy, get your mommy to tuck you in at night and read you a story." That's what you sound like to other people with comments like this.

To non-europeans in this thread: there already exists a transporation system in which you can sleep and get to your destination safely, it's called public transportation.

jhbadger 5y ago

Lots of big cities outside Europe (even in America) have good public transit. I live in the Washington, DC area and don't drive but use the Metro, buses, and regional trains. However, I wouldn't recommend sleeping on them in America or elsewhere unless you don't mind your valuables going missing.

upgrejd 5y ago
I regularly slept on a bus when I commuted for ~40 minutes. Granted, that job lasted only 3 months but nothing got stolen. This was in Slovakia.

Spivak 5y ago

Right but the eventual benefit in that case is to eliminate the need for someone to drive the bus/train/boat/subway.

pjc50 5y ago
Already feasible: https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/docklands-light-railway-dlr-drivers-16597954 https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/docklands-li...

TacticalCoder 5y ago

Public transportation works for those living in cities. When you live in the countryside, which is still legally allowed, suddenly public transportation ain't that much of a solution anymore. Related to TFA: I got to experience the extra called "first class" on a Mercedes Class S (an entry level one, but it had that one extra), where the rear seat (on the passenger side) becomes basically an airliner first class bed (and there's no room for a passenger next to the driver anymore). That is what I call a car I can sleep in and when I'll have a self-driving car, that's the kind of "bed" I'll want. I hope resourceful engineers working on self-driving cars think about comfort and get to experience that "first class" extra that the class S offers (not that Class S cars are my thing: they're not but, darn, was that bed good for a car).

MikusR 5y ago
To non-europeans in this thread: public transportation is also a thing for those living in the countryside.
- Akronymus 5y ago
  As a european living in the countryside: Public transportation works really well. You can reasonably commute at 50% speed of a car in the worst case in most situation IMO. In non-countryside areas, public transportation often outpaces cars.

pjc50 5y ago

You can sleep on public transportation and get to some destination, but you have to make sure you wake up at the right time if you want to get to a specific one :) (Bonus points if that was the last train and now you can't get back until morning. Double bonus points if they forgot to check and you've woken up in the depot)

nradov 5y ago
There's an alarm clock on your mobile phone.
- bagacrap 5y ago
  buses take an unpredictable amount of time to get to their destination. I've tried location based alarms and they failed me.
- NullPrefix 5y ago
  Until you oversleep it and be woken up by the driver in the bus park.
- nitroll 5y ago
  Most alarms wake you at a certain time, not a certain location.

betwixthewires 5y ago

The arrogance it takes to leave a comment like this. Many people that live in the US, Canada, Australia, Russia and others don't live in densely packed cities and suburbs in countries you can drive across in an afternoon. Some of us live in towns with less than ten thousand people, hours from a population center with more than 100,000. Some of us live in towns with a few hundred. I've driven through towns with populations in the single digits. It's autonomous to you, but someone else is driving it. There are whole teams of people who keep those systems going for you. That's a solution? Just because you outsource your driving to someone that makes less money than you doesn't make you better than everyone else. You ignore your externalities and pretend it is a sign of superiority and sophistication. Imagine someone talking about loneliness and ways to alleviate it and someone replies "that's easy, get your mommy to tuck you in at night and read you a story." That's what you sound like to other people with comments like this.