Ask HN: How long do you commute by car each day?

0, I don’t even own one because I don’t need one for my daily activities. I can get to work by PT, walk to the supermarket (with multiple options within walking distance of my home), I can also participate in social activities with my friends without having to drive there. And for the 2-4 occasions a year I actually need to go somewhere I can’t reach by other means (or I have to move something I can’t carry on my person) I just rent a car.

Being free from the burden of maintaining a car feels surprisingly liberating.

Especially after growing up in a place where our family had to have a separate car at home for both my father and mother so they could get to their workplaces after dropping us off to school (because there was no safe way for, us the kids to get to school on our from where we lived). It was actually a pretty big financial burden for my family to own two cars even though dad did all the maintenance on both of them.

70 minutes each way. Pretty much 12 hours a week sitting in a fking car. Much too much too long.

In the summer months, a lot of it is past fields and hedgerows and low hills - which is nice. In the winter its unlit roads and headlights.

In my previous role the commute was about five metres.

When I lived in Seattle, it was 75 minutes each way (58 mi), if traffic was good. I later moved to Philly, and it was 4.7 miles each way, which was usually about 15 minutes. Now my 'commute' is about 6 feet from bed to desk, with a detour to the kitchen to make coffee and feed the cat.

21 miles, 30-45 minutes each way in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. I have to leave home before 6:30am to achieve a ~30 minute commute; commute conditions deteriorate after 6:30am. If I’m unlucky, though, it could be 60 minutes in stop-and-go traffic.

0.0 miles

I don't commute any more, but when I did each direction was a little less than ten miles and a little more than ten minutes, usually on a motorcycle.

About 80-90 min a day. Huge time saving compared to public transportation which I used previously.

12 minutes but I drive 35 minutes via more scenic route unless I am in a hurry (rare)

About 1/4 of a Security Now podcast or 1/2 of the Amp Hour or Embedded.

45-50 minutes, each way. Sucks!

0 miles

I bike!

Why is this not a poll?