No, because we've built a ton of infrastructure around their car-centric culture. Even after they die off, it'll take many more decades to rebuild cities and su

No, because we've built a ton of infrastructure around their car-centric culture. Even after they die off, it'll take many more decades to rebuild cities and suburbs around the rock-solid assumption that everybody has a car. And we're leaning even more heavily into it. Self-driving cars change a lot of things, but they still contribute to the notion that things can be arbitrarily far apart. If we're very lucky, it will mean that fewer people will own their own cars, and maybe they'll demand infrastructure where they won't have to pay to go to the grocery store. But even that happens on a nuclear fusion time scale (always 20 years away). So no, we're not getting a walking utopia when the Boomers croak. That can't happen until their buildings and roads also rot away.