Personal garages at home will disappear
Predictor: Peter Diamandis · ep#242 "Elon Enters the Chip Race, the S&P 500 Repricing, and Human Drivers Will Become Illegal | EP #242" · source
Prediction text
Personal garages at home will disappear | I think the idea of a garage, a personal garage in your home, goes away. So, start thinking about what you're going to do with your garage space.
Verbatim quote
I think the idea of a garage, a personal garage in your home, goes away. So, start thinking about what you're going to do with your garage space.
Predictor: Peter Diamandis
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Probability over time
Milestone chain
- 2025-11-30hitRobotaxi market reaches scale in 5+ US cities (2,500+ Waymo fleet)How: Waymo + Tesla + Zoox combined fleet exceeds 3,000 robotaxis in commercial paid service across at least 5 US metro areas.Source: CNBC — Waymo, Zoox and Tesla drive 2025 robotaxi boomconf 90%Notes: HIT — geographic spread is required for residential garage substitution to begin.
- 2025-12-31hitWaymo paid rides surpass 20M cumulative + 250K/week run-rate (Dec 2025)How: Waymo publicly reports cumulative paid trips above 20 million and weekly run-rate above 250,000 across operating cities, demonstrating accelerating AV displacement of personal-vehicle trips.Source: The Driverless Digest — Waymo's 2025 Year in Reviewconf 95%Notes: HIT — direct precondition for personal garages becoming optional. AV ride volume is the substitution mechanism.
- 2027-01-01 → 2030-06-30pendingFirst major US homebuilder eliminates 2-car garage as standard in new SKUsHow: A top-20 US homebuilder (D.R. Horton, Lennar, PulteGroup, NVR, Toll Brothers, etc.) publicly markets a new home line where the 2-car garage has been replaced by a smaller AV-staging bay or eliminated entirely.Source: Anticipated — homebuilder press releases, NAHB reportsconf 35%Notes: Direct construction-side evidence that the 'garage goes away' thesis is being capitalized into housing stock.
- 2027-01-01 → 2030-12-31pendingZoning code revisions reducing garage-required minimums in 5+ major US citiesHow: Five or more US municipalities (top-100 by population) revise residential zoning codes to eliminate or reduce minimum garage/parking requirements for new single-family residential construction.Source: Anticipated — APA Planning Magazine, Strong Towns reportingconf 50%Notes: Cascade — regulatory follow-through to AV adoption. Some California cities already moving (AB 2097).
- 2028-01-01 → 2031-12-31pendingUS household vehicle ownership rate falls below 1.5 per household (from 1.83)How: Census ACS or BTS reports US household average vehicle ownership has declined from 2024 baseline of 1.83 to below 1.5, indicating multi-car households reducing fleets.Source: Anticipated — US Census ACS, Bureau of Transportation Statisticsconf 30%Notes: Aggregate ownership is the leading indicator for garage utilization.
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Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.063 |
| prereq | 235_038 David Sinclair begins partial epigenetic reprogramming trial — Peter Diamandis | 74.0% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.060 |
| prereq | SEM_012 Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling — Jensen Huang | 75.0% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.054 |
| prereq | SEM_008 Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will co — Dario Amodei | 76.9% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.043 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.650 | +0.040 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_030 Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 203 — Ray Kurzweil | 39.2% | 0.750 | 0.050 | +0.037 |
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| prereq | 240_036 TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electr — Peter Diamandis | 34.3% | 0.650 | 0.050 | +0.032 |
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Prerequisites (8)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 238_009 | Recursive self-improvement is already happening now (no longer three years out) | AI | — |
| prereq | 235_038 | David Sinclair begins partial epigenetic reprogramming trials with Life Biosciences in March 2026. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 246_016 | Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034. | Space | — |
| prereq | 240_036 | TEPCO's restarted reactor will support 20% of Japan's electric needs by 2040 | Energy | — |
| prereq | SEM_034 | True artificial general intelligence will be achieved between 2032 and 2042 — 'first we solve AI, then use AI to solve everything else'. | AI/AGI | — |
| prereq | 239_008 | Moon base will exist in 10 years | Space | — |
Raw metadata
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