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Yes. Also, one could quite trivially turn the driver’s seat and steering column 180 degrees in the UK model, yielding the benefits you mention, as well as that of facing the direction of travel in reverse gear.

I bet getting the self-driving software to work in reverse would only require flipping a sign.

Nah. They're more likely to replace the steering wheel & pedals with an Xbox controller so you could drive the car from any location.

Not a Logitech one?

too much of an implosion risk

I had to give them some credit.

Like in Men in Black 2?

Very surprising indeed, the endgame must be to eventually replace driver and passengers with the upcoming Tesla Bot.

Remote controlled through VR they would allow the user to live vicariously without risk of injury when doing things outside of the comfort zone.

>the additional safety benefit of a longer crumple zone between the driver and oncoming obstacles

and even better if you have some baby seats strapped into the (formerly) back seats, those things are designed to be tough and safe!