They saw that in other Midwestern cities houses were being built without basements, and with carports instead of garages.
Instead of garages, many had "carports"—shelters attached to the house that are open at the front, the better to display gleaming cars.
Instead of garage-door openers, merchants demonstrated doggy-door openers triggered by a sensor on the pet's collar.
The new lab is triple the size of the old one, with six examination rooms instead of two.Its garage was even widened so that forensic scientists can wheel in larger vehicles that may bear evidence.
I pushed the sunroof button instead of the garage door and ended up with a foot of snow in my lap/car.
"Think about how massively the infrastructure's going to change, say, for a community college," which will probably need to provide sizable pickup and drop-off areas, instead of parking garages.
I think in the future, instead of renovated garages like David Packard's in Palo Alto, we're going to start seeing registered landmark status for dorm rooms.
"Did you ever think that the rest of us might like a warm room instead of a damp garage?
Likewise if you wash your car instead of paying a garage or the kid down the street to do it.
Several hours later, when he came home from work, Newball found his wife's Jeep parked out front, instead of in the garage.
