We’ll Be Sleeping Inside Self-Driving Cars And The AI Ought To Help

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

(Ed. Note: For reader’s interested in Dr. Eliot’s ongoing business analyses about the advent of self-driving cars, see his online Forbes column: https://forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/)

When I was working on my doctorate degree, doing so at a prominent west coast university, I decided that during the summer break I would go visit various doctoral colleagues that were doing their PhD's at east coast universities. I was a starving student at the time and was trying to stay within a minimal budget for the trip.

Once I arrived to the east coast and had picked-up the rental car, I drove to the first of the series of campus visits. I had not booked any hotels as yet and figured that once I got to a particular university, I’d find a nearby inexpensive hotel to stay the night and then continue onward to the next campus. Upon trying to find a hotel that first night, I discovered that the only rooms available were quite highly priced and it seemed a shame to pay such an exorbitant cost for just a place to sleep for the night.

I decided therefore to sleep in the rental car for the night.

Sounds kind of questionable, I realize. since I was not destitute per se. It just seemed like the easiest way and most practical…