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Picture this: it’s 2035. You haven’t owned a car in three years. A self-driving pod arrives whenever you tap your phone. That two-car garage? It’s now transformed into a yoga studio, a home theater, or a home gym.
We’ve been dedicating our best square footage to vehicles that sit idle 95% of the time. As personal vehicle ownership declines, every homeowner gains access to a bonus room — art studios, small businesses, or whatever you’ve been dreaming of.
The future isn’t just about driverless technology. It’s garageless — and your home just became significantly larger.
How do you plan to transform your home in the future?
#FutureOfLiving #AutonomousVehicles #CarFree #SmartLiving #GarageTransformation | 10 comments on LinkedIn
28 Comments
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 169d
Nonsense. People store boxes of crap they bought on Amazon in their garages already, and leave their cars outside on the driveway. That's what they'll continue to do. Yoga, art studio, small business? Ha!
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 169d
A lot of my neighbors have giant trucks that don’t even fit in the garages
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 168d
Yeah, with what fucking time?
LeapSecond@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 169d
You mean a taxi? Is the futuristic part that self-driving taxis will be cheaper than human-driven taxis?
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 169d
Yes. For the taxi company it will be. Progress!
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 168d
They have to use the word Pod wherever they can. It makes it sound like a new idea.
Beacon@fedia.io · 4 pts · 168d
Lots of places don't have taxis that you can call to your house. And in the areas that do, often times the taxis are unreliable. And yeah they can get quite expensive.
Taxi driver isn't one of those jobs that we should protect from automation. There's no creative theft in a self driving car.
minfapper@piefed.social · 2 pts · 168d
fair, but I think the actual comparison is to ride share apps rather than classic Taxis.
I haven't checked the pricing of Waymo and whatnot, but I suspect they're drastically cheaper than Uber/Lyft. Just like how Uber/Lyft used to be drastically cheaper than regular Taxis. But now that they've established their market, prices have gone up to what Taxis used to be.
I'm expecting a repeat of that
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 168d
Counterpoint, as a pedestrian I trust self sriving cars way less than human drivers.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 168d
Due to tech bros being happy to sacrifice safety for their progress and stock prices. Musk mainly. However,.the technology will mature. It's inevitable at this point.
I've just travelled interstate to see the in laws for Easter. We flew so as not to lose a day. It would be great if those pods in the future came in the evening and we just slept our way to their place with electric vehicles.
Using the roads that already exist with automated vehicles 24hrs would reduce traffic and delivery times etc. It is just a matter of ensuring that companies like Amazon are not the only game in town and the infrastructure is open and usable by all.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 168d
You mean like a train?
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 167d
No, bit trains are also great. Look at japan.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 165d
like saying you'd rather have weasels down your pants than badgers
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 168d
Ignoring everything else, "our best square footage"? You mean the big room with concrete floors and no climate control?
Don't get me wrong, I love my garage workshop, but let's have some perspective here.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 167d
You could just install an Air conditioner? Like if you are spending enough time in the garage to need climate control it'd probably be worth it, unless the walls are brick but thats probably the exception. Like my garage has an AC and it's fucken ancient, but it's there probably doesn't work though I doubt anyone has tested that for the last 27 years.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 167d
Yeah sure, my point is that it's hardly the "best square footage".
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 167d
a trumpton of folks also have detached garages or no garage.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 168d
They would just stop building garages my guy.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 168d
... with
enshitificationmonetisation of all the things at that level you will clearly need to sublet the garage to an even less fortunate family of four.mech@feddit.org · 8 pts · 168d
I live that life right now. Without tech that doesn't exist yet.
If I do need a car, I tap on my phone, book a car-sharing EV and walk 5 minutes to where it's parked.
The money goes to a local non-profit organization, not a US tech billionaire.
super_user_do@feddit.it · 7 pts · 167d
Bro forgot that, well, in most countries in the world people dont really have garages
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 165d
Where do people store their 2-3 large SUVs then?
super_user_do@feddit.it · 1 pts · 164d
Wdym
Trex202@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 168d
You'll own nothing and be happy about it
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 169d
During COVID a lot of folks in my suburb converted their garages to living space and now park on the street.
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 167d
So close, yet so far. Also, like, if you have a two car garage you probably already have one or two too many rooms in your mcmansion that you aren't really using for anything.
minfapper@piefed.social · 3 pts · 167d
Not necessarily. Here in Texas even the 1100sqft small houses come with a 2 car garage.
The expectation is that both parents work, and since you need a car to get anywhere, you'll need two cars.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 168d
I like garage workshop.