Garages are expensive to build and if you design your roads so that no person with the means would choose anything but driving and ignore the rest, then sprawl becomes the reasonable choice, since people are driving to every destination anyway. What’s the point of the added expense of a garage if you don’t really care about being close to other things nearby?

https://mrlovenstein.com/comic/643

Ok Go, just about any of their videos are worth watching, even if you don’t care about their music

Movie-grade intelligence and/or hacking ability. Can be pretty normal most of the time then go on binges of doing really cool things and just kinda be perceived as a genius eccentric.