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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a millennial (1988) and I don't want to live in a McMansion. Nationally, people are moving into more walkable, mixed use neighborhoods with different types of commercial space and housing. Look at Rockville, Pentagon City, and Tyson's. They're all trying to make themselves car-free destinations. I'm not sure it'll work (especially in NoVa) but I think it's wrong to assume that we'll all pack up and move to the burbs once we have kids. [/quote]

Car free will disappear as a preference ten minutes after driverless cars become mainstream

What seems more likely, a bunch of people paying a premium to live next to the tracks for a choo choo train or people living anywhere they want and having their car drive them in private relaxation?[/quote]

People said teleworking would cause massive change to housing patterns[/quote]

SOME people get to telework and it allows them some flexibility to choose - ANYBODY will be able to choose a driverless car, by definition, way more people than telework.

Anybody saying that all things being equal, people would rather have less house, worse schools and deal with public transportation, vs more house and a driverless car needs to give that some more thought.

Just my thesis, feel free to disagree but we choose walkabiliy as a by product of cutting down our commute.  It's OK to be able to walk to the store, etc but  it doesn't define our lifestyle.   If you told me I could spend 45 minutes to an hour in a car, maybe even getting work done on the way to and from work, and as a result, I get a larger, nicer house, more land and better schools - I am there in a skinny minute.

Generally the point/counterpoint of DCUM goes like this

We don't care about walkability - you must be fat

We moved to the suburbs for the schools and we love it! - sorry that you can't afford to live close in

We live close in - you must live in a shit shack and enjoy crime

It's all so boring

Point is that the driverless car will change things - maybe big, maybe small but everybody gets so defensive about their choices - live your lives[/quote]

Are driverless cars going to change the amount of time you sit in your car to get from point A to point B?

Also you realize über exists, right?  You can just take it to/from the burbs if you desire a driverless car.  It's basically the same thing.  If you wouldn't enjoy uber for 45 minutes I'm not sure why you'd enjoy a driverless car.  [/quote]

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