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People in silicon valley tell me everyone is going to move to the mountains / beach once self-driving cars can bring them to town any time, while they can do wh
by pfd1986 8y ago
People in silicon valley tell me everyone is going to move to the mountains / beach once self-driving cars can bring them to town any time, while they can do whatever in the comfortable commute. My belief though is that most people want to be able to walk to the pub, to bike to the park, and to be a short drive from work... I don't see self-driving cars changing that
- ksdale 8y agoAnecdote from the US: Your belief may become more true as demographics change, but my parents and my wife's parents, who are baby boomers, and the vast majority of their friends and acquaintances, have no interest whatsoever in living within walking distance of basically anything because they have such an aversion to living really close to other people. For sure they are hardcore suburban people and not representative of everyone in the US, but I also don't think they're unusual among baby boomers, at least.
- Hendrikto 8y ago> they have such an aversion to living really close to other people I totally understand them. I am a very late millenial (born Sept 1996), but I don‘t want to live in a city center, especially not a big city.
- CalRobert 8y agoMy biggest fear about self driving cars (aside from cycling and motorcycling becoming incredibly dangerous or illegal as a result) is that we'll use them to destroy the last vestiges of nature within a couple hundred miles of any city.