[nextstep]

Yeah, I don't think this will happen. Why is this different than current mobile homes? Why don't "20-something's and college students" widely adopt mobile homes? Because they're inefficient and you don't need to bring all of your stuff with you everywhere.

This won't change just by making mobile homes autonomous. It will still be cheaper to have a stationary home and a cheap car, autonomous or not.

[nordsieck]

I think for most people this will be true, but with an truly autonomous car, it would be possible to construct a sort of "capsule hotel" on wheels. For a certain class of people that is an attractive value proposition.

[mseebach]

A mobile home is a sort of capsule hotel on wheel - and you can own one right now. Why does the driver-less part change the value proposition so much?

[lotyrin]

Precisely. Lugging around all the amenities from the article has a huge fuel cost, and they don't compare to the quality of their stationary counterparts.

I feel like the OP article's "futurist" has a decent grasp on HOW, but completely disregards WHY.