Yeah - so far I haven't seen anyone else point this out:
* Automated driving permits you to nap, read, etc. while traveling in a car
* Coordinated automated driving permits much greater throughput on the roads with high speeds and smaller following distances
* Land farther from cities is cheap compared to land close
* Electric vehicles are much, much cheaper than petroleum-powered ones on a per-mile basis
I worry that everyone will want to live on a 3 acre estate on nice cheap land 100 miles from the city. After all, why not? Transportation is nearly free and you can kick back and nap for the 45 minute drive in to work (at an average 133 ish mph).
100 years from now, if humanity is somehow still around, I suspect California will be a gigantic skidpad with one giant metropolis that sprawls for ten times the distance they do now. Why not commute from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles every day? Or Yosemite to San Francisco? I mean, some people already do Stockton to SF (hellishly) and that's half the distance right there. For that matter, back in college I dated a girl and drove from San Jose to LA every other weekend. I'd wake up at 4:30 AM in LA and be in work by 11 or so, traffic permitting. If I could've slept in the car and made the drive half as long I would've done it a couple times a week.
* Automated driving permits you to nap, read, etc. while traveling in a car
* Coordinated automated driving permits much greater throughput on the roads with high speeds and smaller following distances
* Land farther from cities is cheap compared to land close
* Electric vehicles are much, much cheaper than petroleum-powered ones on a per-mile basis
I worry that everyone will want to live on a 3 acre estate on nice cheap land 100 miles from the city. After all, why not? Transportation is nearly free and you can kick back and nap for the 45 minute drive in to work (at an average 133 ish mph).
100 years from now, if humanity is somehow still around, I suspect California will be a gigantic skidpad with one giant metropolis that sprawls for ten times the distance they do now. Why not commute from San Luis Obispo to Los Angeles every day? Or Yosemite to San Francisco? I mean, some people already do Stockton to SF (hellishly) and that's half the distance right there. For that matter, back in college I dated a girl and drove from San Jose to LA every other weekend. I'd wake up at 4:30 AM in LA and be in work by 11 or so, traffic permitting. If I could've slept in the car and made the drive half as long I would've done it a couple times a week.
Has anyone else explored this idea?