Driverless vehicles ‘will lead to increase in sex in cars’

Sexual encounters in cars have been a staple of young life for decades – but we could soon see a huge increase in vehicular love-making, a new study has warned.

The arrival of self-driving vehicles will see an increase in car sex, a study in the journal Annals of Tourism Research has warned – and will see vehicles used for prostitution.

People will also do more eating in their vehicles, which could be good news for drive-thru restaurants.

Lead author Scott Cohen of the University of Surrey said, ‘People will be sleeping in their vehicles, which has implications for roadside hotels. And people may be eating in vehicles that function as restaurant pods.

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‘That led us to think, besides sleeping, what other things will people do in cars when free from the task of driving?

Cohen told Fast Company, ‘You can see that in the long association of automobiles and sex that’s represented in just about every coming-of-age movie. It’s not a big leap.’

Cohen also predicts that cars could be increasingly used for encounters with prostitutes.

He said, ‘Where prostitution is legal, and regulations allow AVs to develop fast and be on roads quickly, we could see this come together rapidly. Europe is one of those places. It’s not impossible or that far-fetched to imagine the red light district on the move.’