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I always imagined that in a world of self driving fuel efficient cars, you could just tell your car to make rounds around highways, effectively living in a pod

I always imagined that in a world of self driving fuel efficient cars, you could just tell your car to make rounds around highways, effectively living in a pod for days at a time. Like those long train rides.

rl3 4y ago
I think that’ll be the future soon enough, only caveat being the thing may broadside semis or run off cliffs from time to time because the manufacturer cheaped out on sensors and rigorous engineering. But hey, that’s why we need an intermodal private pod transport system. Purchase and decorate your pod to taste, then live and work in it as poorly-paid drivers ferry you and several other pods (each lacking line of sight on the other) around the world. I look forward to blog posts filled with live, detailed accounts of startups losing pods (with their indignant customers inside them) at various rail and shipping depots.
- jesuscript 4y ago
  It’s not too far fetched. With remote work and effectively virtual avatars of your fake self via social media, we are all in a stationary pod now days, your little box somewhere that doesn’t move. In our own little spaceships. Whether the box moves around is kind of a logistical thing (is it cheaper and more sustainable than say, the absurd real estate/rent bonanza? Might be). It sounds depressing, but, I don’t know. In a far enough future, I wouldn’t mind a flying spaceship to work from. Might land it from time to time at a beach. It’s a little bit of a redefinition of property. Han Solos property wasn’t actual land. It was the Millennium Falcon and unobstructed Space. Luckily for Americans, we have a shit ton of highways. So we have the space part, just not the spaceships (those little pods that move around with auto pilot).
ip26 4y ago
Imagine the traffic when every person in the country has the same brilliant idea.
- jesuscript 4y ago
  The self driving cars wouldn’t drive at speeds humans would drive at. If anything, the windows would probably be blinded out with some fake moving image to simulate speed.
incone123 4y ago
Early episode of the Dr Who reboot (Gridlock) featured a society of people living in their vehicles in a perpetual traffic jam. Your premise was also central to a Judge Dredd story but I don't know the title.

rl3 4y ago

I think that’ll be the future soon enough, only caveat being the thing may broadside semis or run off cliffs from time to time because the manufacturer cheaped out on sensors and rigorous engineering. But hey, that’s why we need an intermodal private pod transport system. Purchase and decorate your pod to taste, then live and work in it as poorly-paid drivers ferry you and several other pods (each lacking line of sight on the other) around the world. I look forward to blog posts filled with live, detailed accounts of startups losing pods (with their indignant customers inside them) at various rail and shipping depots.

jesuscript 4y ago
It’s not too far fetched. With remote work and effectively virtual avatars of your fake self via social media, we are all in a stationary pod now days, your little box somewhere that doesn’t move. In our own little spaceships. Whether the box moves around is kind of a logistical thing (is it cheaper and more sustainable than say, the absurd real estate/rent bonanza? Might be). It sounds depressing, but, I don’t know. In a far enough future, I wouldn’t mind a flying spaceship to work from. Might land it from time to time at a beach. It’s a little bit of a redefinition of property. Han Solos property wasn’t actual land. It was the Millennium Falcon and unobstructed Space. Luckily for Americans, we have a shit ton of highways. So we have the space part, just not the spaceships (those little pods that move around with auto pilot).

ip26 4y ago

Imagine the traffic when every person in the country has the same brilliant idea.

jesuscript 4y ago
The self driving cars wouldn’t drive at speeds humans would drive at. If anything, the windows would probably be blinded out with some fake moving image to simulate speed.

incone123 4y ago

Early episode of the Dr Who reboot (Gridlock) featured a society of people living in their vehicles in a perpetual traffic jam. Your premise was also central to a Judge Dredd story but I don't know the title.