What it’s like to ship yourself overnight on Cabin’s sleep pod bus
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#2Trying to think if this would work for me. I don't live there and haven't commuted that type of distance regular enough to warrant this type of expense. But, on trips, I tend to stay alert enough to know what's going on regardless of how hard to try to sleep. I tend to try to drive on trips because I don't trust other people driving. They mention wanting autonomous buses to run that route, but I just got my class B CDL and could see myself making this run every weekend as a job which would be cool.
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#3I'm not sure why would someone do this if flying takes way less time and is cheaper.
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#4I'm not sure why would someone do this if flying takes way less time and is cheaper.
Cost of travel + accomodation.
If you are flying there is a need to book a hotel to deliver the same experience of being in LA/SF at 7am refreshed.
That is the "free money" in the model, people can exchange sleep in a hotel for a sleep on a bus with pretty much the same outcome.
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#5I'm not sure why would someone do this if flying takes way less time and is cheaper.
This is intended to replace flying + hotel, which does not take less time or money.
Let's say you're in San Francisco and want to be in Santa Monica the whole of the next day. Your options are:
1. Wake up at 3:30am, leave the house at 4, arrive SFO by 5, flight at 6:30, at LAX at 8, get to Santa Monica at 9. You are now completely shattered for the day.
2. Fly at a reasonable hour he night before, and rent a hotel in Santa Monica. You have now spent more money than Cabin.
3. Go to sleep on a bus at a reasonable hour in San Francisco; wake up at a reasonable hour in Santa Monica. You've used less of your waking-time to travel, and have spent less money than getting a hotel.
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#6I'm not sure why would someone do this if flying takes way less time and is cheaper.
Convenience, and comfort factor. If I can take a bus, and sleep 10-12h uninterrupted, it's worth the premium.
The alternative is broken travel, lines, TSA harassment, and arriving at your destination a hollow shell of your former self having had the live and soul sucked out of you by incompetence, harmful lighting design and oppressive neon tubes and the brown noise of an aircraft engine sapping your very will to exist.
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#7You americans don't have any trains, eh? :)
Not exactly the ritz, but does the job: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sleeping+train
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#8Not sure I'd really want to get where I was going with bed-head and no access to a shower. Other than that, seems like a great idea. Maybe they could work out a cross-promotion or voucher or something that would let people use the showers/locker room at a gym at the destination?
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#9I haven't used Cabin but a lot of other bus companies (Megabus, Greyhound, Flixbux,...) and trains with sleeping compartments and I imagine the bus to be a lot harder to sleep on (vibrations, breaking, highway noise,...) than a train on fixed tracks.
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#10You americans don't have any trains, eh? :) Not exactly the ritz, but does the job: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=sleeping+train
There is a sleeper train up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco: