# 'Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels' **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [June 19, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093 "2017-06-19T15:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/1 "2017-06-19T15:51:26Z")
> **[Envisioning the Car of the Future as a Living Room on Wheels](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/automobiles/wheels/driverless-cars-interior.html)** > > As driverless cars develop, how we sit, inform and entertain ourselves are all up for grabs — and companies, designers and researchers are dreaming big. Don’t forget the condoms! That’d be a smart car. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/2 "2017-06-20T00:38:19Z")
Something wrong with the link I guess but I think my 81 Olds 88 was pretty much a living room on wheels. So maybe everything old becomes new again. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/3 "2017-06-20T22:07:28Z")
> [@bing](#): > > Something wrong with the link I guess but I think my 81 Olds 88 was pretty much a living room on wheels. Something wrong with the way this website presented it. I remember my parents’ '50 Studebaker Champion: could have set up a table and served dinner in the back. ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/4 "2017-06-20T22:40:46Z")
Gee, RT, that sounds pretty horrible. I’m just glad I’ll be dead before the Brave New World is fully put into effect; until that day, I will resist it, and give my vote to those who will also resist it. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/5 "2017-06-20T22:49:22Z")
Just what I want ads on my windsheild while the car drives me from place to place. How about a pop up table so we can play cards with the front and back seat drivers? And the virtual reality to make you feel like you are in a race car, dang the fun never ends, cars may have a future like phones, I mean you used to have a land line, did not have to ask where are you, and all it did was make phone calls, I bet 80% of smart phone usage is doing things other than making a phone call, like the car of the future, 80% of what you do in a car is not driving. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/6 "2017-06-21T00:39:38Z")
I agree with @bing. My Mom’s 1964 Series 62 Cadillac hard top had enough room for three in the front easily and four in the back. There was plenty of room to recline in there. ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/8 "2017-06-21T23:10:26Z")
Carolyn, can’t we get this living pile of used food banned? He just wished death on me! He has ZERO comprehension of civilized discourse, and immediately resorts to uncalled-for personal attacks. (And I ONLY censor myself for the respect of the OTHER board members. Were it just you and me, I’d unload with all the “heavy artillery” four-letter-words I could muster, as you RICHLY deserve every one.) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/10 "2017-06-22T00:33:02Z")
The thing is I just don’t take to heart anything the NYT says anymore or the Washington Post or the LA Times. They had a recent article envisioning in the near future no one would own cars anymore but just share them or use Uber. Of course they meant New York, or Chicago, or LA, or Atlanta, etc. Some of these writers have never been farther than the Ohio river yet think they have the pulse of the nation, or at least how they think it SHOULD be. Used to read them every day, now if I had a cat, that’s what I’d use them for. ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/11 "2017-06-22T00:39:34Z")
Okay, so I afforded you an opportunity to “walk it back,” and you didn’t. Time to GTHO, Troll. You trod where you shouldn’t have, and are in violation of the board’s policies, not to mention basic human decency. ---
**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/12 "2017-06-22T03:21:12Z")
I agree that the comment was out of line. @RandomTroll, please check your PMs. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/13 "2017-06-24T22:23:26Z")
I hope you live forever @meanjoe75fan. ---
**Author:** ![kurtwm1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kurtwm1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kurtwm1)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/14 "2017-06-24T23:27:07Z")
If I want all the amenities of home, I stay home. If I want all the amenities of feeling a car under my butt, I jump in my car and take off. ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/envisioning-the-car-of-the-future-as-a-living-room-on-wheels/105093/15 "2017-06-26T14:18:20Z")
I concur!!!