Need to spend 20k and make your car look uglier??? I present to you: A Prius with a camper added to it. The camper allows a total of 4 people to be able to sleep in this vehicle, and adults can stand fully upright. I cannot find any info out there on what this does to a Prius's mpg- obviously has a negative impact, but is a cough stylish cough and aerodynamic design... link
I'm not a big fan of camping. But I'd prefer to sleep in a text than sleep in a tiny space with three other people - even if they are my closest friends. I need my space.
Also - where I live it's not unusual to have 50 or even 60 mph winds. I wonder if that thing becomes a possible death trap in winds that high on the highway.
I get that, I love camping but prefer to be in a place where you can just lay down outside on your nice soft things and sleep under the stars- everyone has plenty of room to spread out, move to the other side of the tree, whatever. And, am totally with you about need space to sleep in general- if it moves or makes noise within 5 feet of me, I'm going to wake up. I did find the amount of room to move around in this space pretty impressive, given what they are working with!
No idea about the wind
The photo was surely taken in Japan. The Japanese can be genius when it comes to space. But unless they figured out a way to temporarily shrink the human body - that space is going to feel like a womb plus you've got three other siblings.
Living in place that can get so windy - I'm always sort of amazed how people can forget that the wind (not a hurricane or anything - just the wind) can be a force of nature. Now that I'm thinking about it - I wonder how my Tesla accidents tagged as "driver error" were actually caused by high wind. It's easy to imagine this scenario...
"Mr. Musk - in the tests shown here - we added winds up to 60 mph. The incidence of crashes was alarmingly high. And—"
"Yeah, so?"
"Catastrophic failure and deaths could be a possible result."
"Unlikely. I'm not worried about it. Next issue..."
Immediately after the meeting Elon speaks to an aide.
"The 'wind' guy is fired. Send him an email, text, and automated phone call. Tell him that security is on its way and he's got 60 minutes to vacate the building."
Problem solved!