A fantastic investment I've made for my unavoidable commute is buying a newer model car with automatic/adaptive cruise control. Most newer Hondas, Toyotas, Suba

A fantastic investment I've made for my unavoidable commute is buying a newer model car with automatic/adaptive cruise control. Most newer Hondas, Toyotas, Subarus, have lane keeping, automatic braking, and adaptive cruise. It makes stop and go traffic a lot less stressful. They're not quite at Tesla levels of autonomy, e.g. most of them don't do lane centering and just bounce between the lanes if left alone (and don't do any lane keeping at low speeds), and they won't automatically accelerate when they bring themselves to a stop, but still, it helps a lot. I rationalize my commute because it's the only time of the day I can binge-listen to podcasts.