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> I like the comparison to horses. I haven't seen any data, but my guess is that the average person's commute is roughly the same as it was 150 years ago. And
by Alex3917 10y ago
> I like the comparison to horses.
I haven't seen any data, but my guess is that the average person's commute is roughly the same as it was 150 years ago. And if at some point we have self-driving cars or flying cars, we'll still spend roughly the same time commuting as we do today.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I haven't seen any data, but my guess is that the average person's commute is roughly the same as it was 150 years ago. I think you'd probably be wrong (though it may depend strongly on which average you take); even with the industrial revolution, working at home, or essentially so (whether yeoman farming or living upstairs from the shop) was a lot more common 150 years ago than it is now, though it may be more common now than it was just before telecommuting.