Engineering

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

The framing that I hear from EV manufacturers here in Asia is along the lines of — it’s not a car, it’s a technology platform to build upon (along the lines of what Musk said by declaring Tesla a software company).

Thanks to electrification and FSD, the car becomes a first space (sleep, consume entertainment), a second space (work and take calls, with the added benefit of a quiet interior), or perhaps a third space (spend quality time with others, be it family on a commute, friends on a road trip, or strangers on a ride share).

The car itself becomes a liminal space whose advanced connectivity and systems allow you to creatively make the best use of that “dead time”.

In particular, we will look back at the old daily commute and be mind-blown as to how archaic it was