content: Nobody will give a shit about commute time when self-driving cars are prevalent.  You can eat, sleep, poop and bust a nut in a self-driving car since windows would be obsolete.    You can have a workstation in your car and even start work at 8am each day even though you don't arrive at the office until 10am.  The long commute becomes part of your 8-hour workday and actually might improve it since it gives you a couple hours to start and end the day without distractions from those coworkers who love to tell you their life story every day.