I enjoyed this article and could see these things come to fruition.
> Where are you willing to live if 'access to public transport' is 'anywhere' and there are no traffic jams on your commute? Does an hour-long commute with no traffic and no need to watch the road feel better or worse than a half-hour commute stuck in near-stationary traffic staring at the car in front?
This I think is going to have the biggest impact on a lot of people. If I can sit in a pod and have a trouble-free and consistent commute to work I would be willing to commute to more places for work. Having had jobs where I commuted around an hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic each way was awful. I would take an equivalent-time commute where I can space out, read, do work, or whatever.
Secondly in this fantasy land I would also be willing to go to more places on a whim if it were this easy. Lots of cool stuff might not have to be solely concentrated in big cities if it's more affordable for business to pop up farther out from centers of population.
In a more weird twist what if this autonomy was so good that you could send pods containing entire dinners on the road? Looking past how one would keep it fresh, it would be cool to order food and get it delivered without knowing there could be a 45+ minute wait until it gets there.
> Where are you willing to live if 'access to public transport' is 'anywhere' and there are no traffic jams on your commute? Does an hour-long commute with no traffic and no need to watch the road feel better or worse than a half-hour commute stuck in near-stationary traffic staring at the car in front?
This I think is going to have the biggest impact on a lot of people. If I can sit in a pod and have a trouble-free and consistent commute to work I would be willing to commute to more places for work. Having had jobs where I commuted around an hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic each way was awful. I would take an equivalent-time commute where I can space out, read, do work, or whatever.
Secondly in this fantasy land I would also be willing to go to more places on a whim if it were this easy. Lots of cool stuff might not have to be solely concentrated in big cities if it's more affordable for business to pop up farther out from centers of population.
In a more weird twist what if this autonomy was so good that you could send pods containing entire dinners on the road? Looking past how one would keep it fresh, it would be cool to order food and get it delivered without knowing there could be a 45+ minute wait until it gets there.