I don’t want to yuck your yum but I think it looks badass. I think the concept is badass. I don’t want to own a car but I also can’t afford a chauffeur. We don’t have much of any public transit in my area. Bike paths are making progress but still not what I would consider safe. An autonomous van that carries 20 passengers would be very cost-effective. It’s not an ideal solution but may be the best one we could actually implement using existing infrastructure and without voter approval.
Also that bottom part appears to be a similar height to any typical car to me, and is supposedly just an aerodynamic skirt that will fold up if it actually hits anything. That’s what I’ve read but obviously can’t verify.
I think the concept is cool, and it would probably make a good replacement for buses. In my area, we have on-demand vans run by the org that runs the buses, and they basically take people to/from any transit stop in the area. A robovan would replace those, and potentially replace buses as well, and they could run more frequently because you don’t need to have drivers.
So I absolutely like the idea, but I still think it looks dumb. Why screens instead of windows? Why does it look like it’s from a video game?
I mean theoretically you could use Miracast or similar technology to cast whatever you want onto those displays, whether that’s watching movies/TV or doing work from your computer.
It has windows.
Why does it look like it’s from a video game?
I mean why do vehicles from video games looks like they do? Because they’re cool. You can say a lot of things about Tesla but you can’t call them conventional. Sometimes that’s good, and sometimes not so much. Beauty is subjective.
This is not the robotaxi
Yup, it’s a concept car “robovan.” And I think it looks gross.
I don’t want to yuck your yum but I think it looks badass. I think the concept is badass. I don’t want to own a car but I also can’t afford a chauffeur. We don’t have much of any public transit in my area. Bike paths are making progress but still not what I would consider safe. An autonomous van that carries 20 passengers would be very cost-effective. It’s not an ideal solution but may be the best one we could actually implement using existing infrastructure and without voter approval.
Also that bottom part appears to be a similar height to any typical car to me, and is supposedly just an aerodynamic skirt that will fold up if it actually hits anything. That’s what I’ve read but obviously can’t verify.
I think the concept is cool, and it would probably make a good replacement for buses. In my area, we have on-demand vans run by the org that runs the buses, and they basically take people to/from any transit stop in the area. A robovan would replace those, and potentially replace buses as well, and they could run more frequently because you don’t need to have drivers.
So I absolutely like the idea, but I still think it looks dumb. Why screens instead of windows? Why does it look like it’s from a video game?
I mean theoretically you could use Miracast or similar technology to cast whatever you want onto those displays, whether that’s watching movies/TV or doing work from your computer.
It has windows.
I mean why do vehicles from video games looks like they do? Because they’re cool. You can say a lot of things about Tesla but you can’t call them conventional. Sometimes that’s good, and sometimes not so much. Beauty is subjective.