I will say in their defense, that people in wintery snow packed states up north kinda need a garage or lose their truck or automobile in a blizzard save hours of shoveling. Makes clearing the driveway easier if vehicles etc are pulled in, and less vulnerable to hail, wind & theft. Basically having garages makes life a lot easier, even if you don't own a motor vehicle. You could just as easily have a spiffy workshop & bike storage vs automobile or truck. Even here in PA where we get less snow there are many, many, many houses with no garage or carport or provision for carport or if they do have a garage it doesn't fit the larger automobiles, which makes no sense to me. If you live in a place with snowy winters, carports & garages do indeed make sense.... but.... the massive size & how dominant the garage is vs the rest of the house makes no sense.

I had a concept a few years ago involving automated fully electronic vehicles that used radio, smart roads & mobile device software to basically delete the personal automobile and be used to make most types of deliveries (including groceries) which would take most trucks off local roads... the roads would then last longer due to the lighter driverless delivery vehicles.... you could even interlink them with transload facilities and have rail do all the interstate & moderate distance transport. This would be paired with a new economic model where say if you wanted a new faucet & were not sure which fit best in your bathroom instead of making several trips.. you'd have several faucets delivered to you via automated vehicle.. and you'd simply return the ones you weren't going to use, and the trip wouldn't just be to your residence, it would make other deliveries and pickups along a designated route determined by logistics software that actually al ready exists. You could also return it from another location to increase convenience.

The same would applied to passenger transport... you have a schedule set up and they do all the work so you're there on time with minimal time in transit.

All of this is totally doable with existing technologies. You could have a few different sizes & capacities of both delivery and passenger vehicles or even hybrid types that do both. It's the 21st century now, time to dump the Victorian era one horse & buggy for one rider system.

- Andy