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Re:U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicl... by nomel on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:53PM (#40216865)
Where I am, my car commute is 30 minutes. If I moved closer, shaving it to 10 minutes, my housing costs double. If I get down to 5, housing costs are about 4x.

If I use public transport now, the travel time is 2 hours. To keep my public transport to 30 minutes, I have to ~2x my housing costs.

I think, realistically, people will just end up commuting further, to offset the cost, since that is the best financial, and time, choice.

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Re:U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicl... by spankalee on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:01PM (#40217528)
We should also build more housing!
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Re:U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicl... by nomel on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @08:57PM (#40218353)
That's another significant problem. Any dense housing built near the city is, necessarily, corporate built, due to initial costs. The ability to own these units is disappearing [1], with much more profit being found by renting. This means that moving near a city is, almost always, a 100% loss, where you burn your housing cost every month, rather than building equity with something you can own some commute away. This adds significantly more cost to the short commute, if you plan on living in the same place for a while.

[1] https://www.ppic.org/blog/multi-unit-housing-is-becoming-mor...

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Re:U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicl... by pjc50 on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @04:14AM (#40220774)
> where you burn your housing cost every month

As opposed to travel cost?

(yes, it's a really stupid situation that renting a house is far more expensive than renting some money for thirty years)

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Re:U.S. to require automatic emergency braking on new vehicl... by nomel on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:03PM (#40226906)
My cheap gas car gets 40mpg on the freeway. With our roughly $5.30/gallon cost here, a 40 mile one-way commute is around $300/month. That's < 1/10th the housing cost for living near work.

If free electric charging is available where you work, you can save even more by buying a low range, used, electric that nobody wants. I picked one up for $8k. The savings will pay it off in a few more years.

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