Ikea Is Already Designing Slice Of Furniture For Autonomous Vehicles

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From MIT's Technology Review:

IKEA designs futurity autonomous cars that operate equally hotels, stores, too coming together rooms
The slice of furniture store’s interrogation lab has dreamed upwards 7 ways nosotros powerfulness purpose autonomous vehicles if nosotros don’t really direct maintain to focus on driving.

Once cars tin lastly motility themselves, we’ll direct maintain to a greater extent than fourth dimension to taste the journeying too produce other, much to a greater extent than interesting materials instead. At to the lowest degree that’s the concept behind about of the designs below, developed past times retail giant IKEA’s “future living lab,” SPACE10, based inwards Copenhagen.

The blueprint studio/research lab came upwards alongside designs for autonomous vehicles that would live extensions of our homes, offices, too local institutions. Some of its 7 ideas, shown below, are almost practical. Who can’t imagine autonomously driven cafés or pop-up stores? In fact, they already be inwards California—in the shape of self-driving cars that direct maintain groceries stocked inwards their dorsum seats.

Other concepts powerfulness necessitate a flake to a greater extent than thought, especially the ones that SPACE10 envisions delivering resources to underserved communities. It may live difficult, for example, for a self-driving wellness hospital to convey medical assist to really remote areas. Nevertheless, the designs are useful for sparking conversations near the ways autonomous vehicles could transform everyday life.

 
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Why non plow your entire commute into 1 long meeting? SPACE10’s Office on Wheels would enable yous to non simply operate on your agency to work, but equally good concur group discussions in a mobile version of a conference room.

 
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Or simply a mini IKEA store?

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Previously:
Honda Patents an Autonomous Mobile Living Room
Ogilvy & Mather Britain Vice-Chair Rory Sutherland on Driverless Showers
Driverless Hotel Rooms: The End of Uber, Airbnb too Human Landlords