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Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs by quantumwannabe on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:49AM (#31609947)
If they commute 235 miles per year then they don’t need a train at all because that is a commute of around half a mile each way per day which is easily walkable. That number is so ridiculously low I suspect the source is wrong.
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Re:Tesla to Cut 10% of Jobs by kube-system on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:43PM (#31610646)
Maybe so. A government source says:

> Even though average miles travelled for commuting purposes has declined to 799 miles travelled per person in 2020, a decrease of 37% compared to 2019 (1,276 miles travelled per person) and an overall decrease of 43% compared to 2002 (1,400 miles travelled per person)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-travel-sur...

So, still close to an order of magnitude less than my anecdotal data. The bottom line is that the US definitely has a lot of sprawl.

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