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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have been several recent threads about how bad drivers are in the DC area.  What is your view of our driving?[/quote]

I think about this one all the time.  Traffic in DC is made up of a perfect storm of situations.  Transplants who really don't know their way around, tourists who are completely lost, aggressive local drivers who scare the shit out of both the previous groups, uber drivers paying more attention to the app on their phone than the road, lots of confusing road layouts outside the downtown grid, bad signage and terrible road design, and crummy roads filled with potholes.  Combine all these together and you get our daily mess.  It's not "bad drivers" per se, more like tentative, confused, and lost drivers who are very unpredictable.

Fully autonomous cars are coming in the next 20 years or so.  I do believe these will solve all of DC's traffic woes and make this a really, really nice place to live in the future when you can always get across town reliably in ten minutes or so.  Hopefully metro will do their part with increasing capacity, more 7000 series 8-car trains, a second Potomac river crossing at Rosslyn and either dedicated government funding or even privatization.  This area is still in the middle of a huge ongoing building boom as evidenced by the dozens of construction cranes all over DC, Arlington, and Tysons, and is only going to grow more.  By 2018, Virginia's 11-tallest office/residential buildings will all be located between Rosslyn and Tysons.  In the meantime until the 2030s when autonomous cars are a reality and commonplace, we deal with the current mess status quo.[/quote]

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