This is not a million miles from some of my speculations in Gu, which includes “tumbleweeds” – permanent nomads travelling the world in their self-contained mobile residences.

http://csidemedia.com/gu

Via Raja Mitra.

Originally shared by Mark Lewis

I read quite a few articles on driverless cars. This is the first one in a while that I have felt really has creative elements to it. They might be pushing the idea a bit too far, but it is a very interesting idea and goes beyond some of my previous thinking in different areas. What I liked most though was how the author points out that the auto industry could produce enough autonomous cars to replace all human-driven cars in a rather short period of time. That’s significant. The timeline for scaling up autonomous ride sharing is one of the things I’ve worried about the most, but apparently, if current production switched over to fully autonomous, it would produce a complete global supply of such cars in a rather short period of time because so many fewer cars are needed if the cars aren’t left sitting in parking lots all the time.

https://hackernoon.com/driverless-hotel-rooms-the-end-of-uber-airbnb-and-human-landlords-e39f92cf16e1