Reclaiming your commute

I totally agree with the other comments here about safety. Driving is one of the most dangerous things the average person will do every day, and deserves your full attention.<p>It's fine to make choices for yourself and to accept some risk in your life, but when you are behind the wheel you are making that choice to increase the risk for everyone around you too. You have a responsibility to drive carefully.<p>Please don't make the roads any more unsafe by doing activities or encouraging others to do activities while driving that may distract them from the task of driving safely.<p>Find other ways to reclaim your commute such as moving closer to work, working from home on some days or using public transport. Or perhaps stop thinking of your commute as lost time, but time that is spent to enable you to live somewhere pleasant/quiet/cheap while working somewhere that meets the needs of your business/work.

This seems like a terrible idea from a safety point of view.<p>If commute time bothers you, move closer to work, or work closer to home. Use the extra time to blog.<p>Personally, I'd never work somewhere I couldn't bike to. Its significantly more fun than driving, and I never sit in traffic.

Please don't do this. There are already few enough people paying attention while driving. Just because you are in stop-and-go traffic doesn't mean you can stop paying attention.

Glad it works for you. However, I would never be able to blog this way. When I blog, it's a continuous iteration of what I have written. I write something, it doesn't make sense, then I go back and make it better. Personally, I would find it impossible to create quality content by just starting to speak out loud.

My daily half-hour bus commute gives me a great opportunity for focused reading time. By making it a habit, I have read through a year's worth of the St. John's College classics curriculum (<a href="http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/ANreadlist.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/academic/ANreadlist.shtml</a>).<p>Take the bus if it's accessible to you, load up on some books, and you will love your commute.

The reference to <a href="http://www.taskrabbit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.taskrabbit.com/</a> was exactly what I have wanted. Thanks for the link.

Articles like this are a major reason why I decided to move to New York. Commuting? Sure, but it's also free exercise!

I've found that people who multi-task while driving leave lots of room in front of their car so they can pay less attention and are themselves causing more congestion for others. Of which they are usually unaware because they have tunnel vision at the point.

Know your own limit - I always need 100% concentration while driving, but I found that some people can get away with multitasking.

Great, now in addition to people who eat fast food, apply make up, play sing-along, tend to their children, talk on the phone, text message, and nod off in the car, we have to deal with people BLOGGING in their cars?<p>It's gotten to the point where I refuse to drive anything but a performance car because the kind of shit you have to deal with as a person who actually FOLLOWS the rules requires the ability to accelerate, brake, and handle better than all the idiots on the road who are totally distracted, don't signal or stay in the lanes, and drive 40mph on the fucking highway.<p>The only way to reclaim your commute is to not commute.

Listen to audiobooks. Better than listening to the rubbish on the radio, and no more dangerous. Really good way to do something you enjoy while driving. Find a good book. Either fiction or self development or what ever and I find myself looking forward to car time because I can relax. My audiobook player is the best player for iPhone that I've found. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-audiobook-player/id459393040?ls=1&#38;mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-audiobook-player/id4593930...</a> Let's you play downloaded books.