How much time does the average American spend in the car?

How much time does the average American spend in the car?

Americans spend so much time behind the wheel that a new study showed drivers actually forge close-knit bonds with their cars. The average American spends 18 days driving per year, with an average of eight hours and 22 minutes per week, a OnePoll study conducted on behalf of Cooper Tire found.

How many hours does the average driver drive each year?

During this time, drivers travelled nearly 10,900 miles on average and spent more than 290 hours on the road. “The amount of time the average driver spends behind the wheel each year is equivalent to seven 40-hour weeks at the office,” says Jurek Grabowski, research director for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

How much time do you spend behind the wheel?

The AAA Foundation’s American Driving Survey shows that on average, U.S. drivers spend nearly an hour behind the wheel each day and travel 31.5 miles- a five percent increase from 2014. Other survey findings show that: Men spend 19 percent more time behind the wheel and drive 27 percent more miles than women.

How many miles do men drive per year?

On average, men report driving 2,314 more miles than women per year and spend 18 percent more time behind the wheel. More than 86 percent of U.S. households have at least one car for every driver in the home and 28 percent report having more cars than drivers.

Americans spend so much time behind the wheel that a new study showed drivers actually forge close-knit bonds with their cars. The average American spends 18 days driving per year, with an average of eight hours and 22 minutes per week, a OnePoll study conducted on behalf of Cooper Tire found.

During this time, drivers travelled nearly 10,900 miles on average and spent more than 290 hours on the road. “The amount of time the average driver spends behind the wheel each year is equivalent to seven 40-hour weeks at the office,” says Jurek Grabowski, research director for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

The AAA Foundation’s American Driving Survey shows that on average, U.S. drivers spend nearly an hour behind the wheel each day and travel 31.5 miles- a five percent increase from 2014. Other survey findings show that: Men spend 19 percent more time behind the wheel and drive 27 percent more miles than women.

How many miles do Americans drive each year?

Over the course of the year, Americans collectively spent 70 billion hours behind the wheel- an eight percent increase since 2014. Each week, drivers travel more than 220 miles. Add it up and Americans drive an average of 11,498 miles each year- the equivalent of making two roundtrip drives from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.