IKEA´s think tank envisions self-driving cars as rooms on wheels
(WorldNews Denmark)

Forget what you know about sleek self-driving cars. In the hands of IKEA’s think tank, autonomous vehicles look like cheerful, bright-colored living rooms on wheels. With fully autonomous vehicles expected to hit the road as early as 2022, IKEA sees a way into the potential trillion-dollar sector by recasting self-driving units as rooms instead of passenger cars. “We don´t have ambitions of manufacturing cars,â€� says IKEA’s Göran Nilsson. “But in a future where people no longer have to worry about driving, vehicle interiors can expand to a point where we no longer are designing cars, but rather small spaces. Then it´s suddenly an area where we have a lot of...