untonuggan: Harry Potter in Gryffindor Robes holding a wand with a green glow (harry potter)
[personal profile] untonuggan
So you know how people have been making proto-self driving vehicles? Well what I want is a self-driving vehicle that has detachable escape pods. So, say you're at a party or family event with people. And say they want to stay but you are like rrrrrgh needs must go NOW. You can just get in your self-driving escape pod and jet out of there to wherever you need to go (a safe friend's house, your own house, some sort of ER, etc.) without having to get into a prolonged discussion about who will stay and who will go, who is driving which car, people potentially guilting you for "ruining" the party when that is not actually in your capacity to do to an entire party by merely leaving to take care of yourself, etc.

I think this is a brilliant plan!

Also, maybe the pod could be set up for introverts if perchance you are in introvert, so there could be shades to screen you from the outside world and music of your choice and perhaps a selection of books or a built-in ereader collected to a great library and squishy pillows and weighted blankets...you know, whatever helps you decompress from THE OVERSTIMULATION and SPOON OVERLOAD.

Please someone use this idea, you can haves it for free! Just make it happen!

Date: 2014-07-18 04:09 am (UTC)
staranise: A star anise floating in a cup of mint tea (Default)
From: [personal profile] staranise
This was why I loved having my own car. I just drove myself separately to all my family events, and got to self-soothe by driving.

Date: 2014-07-18 06:34 am (UTC)
staranise: A star anise floating in a cup of mint tea (Default)
From: [personal profile] staranise
If I had a million dollars, I would buy (or hire in a legal manner for a good salary) you a chauffeur.

Date: 2014-07-18 04:14 am (UTC)
tyger: Lea handing Isa a sea-salt ice cream. (Lea and Isa)
From: [personal profile] tyger
I hear what you're saying but what's coming into my brain is 'portable safe space' and yes, I wants that, yup.

Also the driving thing, but. Yes.

Date: 2014-07-18 04:21 am (UTC)
phlox: Bright pink phlox-shaped flower (Default)
From: [personal profile] phlox
That sounds pretty wonderful--and it would work for people who don't or can't drive, and, as [personal profile] tyger said, portable safe space sounds pretty wonderful. Could also work for small children who have hit sensory overload and need a nap--in addition to larger people who need the same. :)

Date: 2014-07-21 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] geeksdoitbetter
*schwooommngh*

is the sound my pod would make when it glommed on to another

Date: 2014-07-18 06:41 am (UTC)
shehasathree: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shehasathree
hah, yes! would invest/beta-test.

Date: 2014-07-18 01:46 pm (UTC)
nilchance: original art from a vintage print; art of a woman being struck by lightning (spoons)
From: [personal profile] nilchance
Brilliant. I would like to subscribe to this service.

Date: 2014-07-19 03:47 pm (UTC)
alee_grrl: A kitty peeking out from between a stack of books and a cup of coffee. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alee_grrl
A portable safe space would be awesome.

Date: 2014-07-19 09:34 pm (UTC)
pipisafoat: image of virgin mary with baby jesus & text “abstinence doesn’t work" (arms on a porch (of mary))
From: [personal profile] pipisafoat
YES and then drivers also don't have to worry about parking concerns vs Can Do This Entire Party Length when deciding carpool or driving separate. (I had this issue last night at nephew's birthday party, and while the driver I came with [my mother gd] refused to believe that I had a valid concern (much less two), my nephew's dad volunteered to leave his kid's party to drive me home and then go back to the party. FAMILY OF CHOICE FOREVER.)

Date: 2014-07-25 04:54 pm (UTC)
sauscony: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sauscony
Yes, this. In my utopian dreams, this would be a necessity, but it would need some kind of teeny, tiny bathroom too, LOL.

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