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93% is great! but this would have been ~100% in pre-automobile era. And would keep falling as we become more and more mobile. Humans may be creatures of habit b

• roc 17y ago
  It'd be interesting to see the data comparing urban and sub/ex-urban habits. I'd guess that urbanites are less predictable. But it would be really neat to see to what degree that holds true and how much (or if) it actually diverges from their suburban counterparts. (Given the increased density of destinations, increased discoverability of destinations, more efficient and numerous methods of transit and lower travel times, I'd expect they would go more different places more often.)
  • aaronblohowiak 17y ago
    This would also vary depending on how you calculate the accuracy of the predictions. Urbanites might be more predictable than suburbanites because (pure speculation) the urbanites tend to only do things in the city, whereas suburbanites are used to driving all over and will therefore have a much larger sense of "nearby".... In the study this is "within a square mile" which is a HUGE portion of san francisco, but doesn't even get me to my dry cleaners in the burbs.
  • icefox 17y ago
    When I lived in Oslo me and my wife would go walking all over the place and take different and often random trips. Back in the states we don't have a sidewalk in suburbia (one bike trail near by which is the only place we walk) and have to drive so when we drive it is usually to the same places. So I would say I am much more predictable now then I was before.