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Of all the uses self-driving cars have been predicted to have once they turn into a reality, brothels on wheels are perhaps something not many have thought about yet. Luckily, we have the relentless guild of British researchers, who from time to time answer questions we never knew we had.
In the January issue of the Annals of Tourism Research, a paper called Autonomous vehicles and the future of urban tourism will be published. Its authors are Scott Cohen from the University of Surrey and Debbie Hopkins from the University of Oxford. The goal of the paper: to provide a starting point for future research into the impact of autonomous vehicles on the tourism industry.
Among the many points of view and ideas in the paper, one clearly stands out: the possibility of self-driving cars being used as hotels by the hour by prostitutes and drug addicts.
This idea, although grim in nature, is not at all far-fetched. After all, people have been having sex and doing drugs in their own cars for ages, so what’s to stop them from using a rented car with no driver for the same purpose?
Such cars will likely be rented by the minute (for a minimum of minutes, of course), hence be cheaper than a hotel room. Sure, a credit card will likely be required – one which is doubtful pimps and junkies posses – but that’s not an obstacle impossible to overcome for street-smart individuals.
Of course, both prostitution and drug dealing are usually confined to certain areas of any given city, and AVs could be easily geofenced and prevented from ever setting wheel in such zones.
Then again, ”such surveillance may be rapidly overcome, disabled or removed,” the paper says.
Even so, the possibility remains, and we might even have more open-minded cities the likes of Amsterdam approve the use of AVs for sexual enterprises.
You can read the entire paper on this subject at this link.
Among the many points of view and ideas in the paper, one clearly stands out: the possibility of self-driving cars being used as hotels by the hour by prostitutes and drug addicts.
This idea, although grim in nature, is not at all far-fetched. After all, people have been having sex and doing drugs in their own cars for ages, so what’s to stop them from using a rented car with no driver for the same purpose?
Such cars will likely be rented by the minute (for a minimum of minutes, of course), hence be cheaper than a hotel room. Sure, a credit card will likely be required – one which is doubtful pimps and junkies posses – but that’s not an obstacle impossible to overcome for street-smart individuals.
Of course, both prostitution and drug dealing are usually confined to certain areas of any given city, and AVs could be easily geofenced and prevented from ever setting wheel in such zones.
Then again, ”such surveillance may be rapidly overcome, disabled or removed,” the paper says.
Even so, the possibility remains, and we might even have more open-minded cities the likes of Amsterdam approve the use of AVs for sexual enterprises.
You can read the entire paper on this subject at this link.
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