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Your car doesn't stay idle 95% of the time, then. While the general principle might still apply in your case, the original examples don't, because your situatio
by phoe-krk 6y ago
Your car doesn't stay idle 95% of the time, then. While the general principle might still apply in your case, the original examples don't, because your situation is different.
- closeparen 6y agoThere are 168 hours in a week, 5% is 8.4 hours/week. You could drive somewhere 15 minutes away and back, twice per day, and still be under 5%.
- whoisburbansky 6y agoAgreed, but maybe it's best to think of the 95% as a convenient placeholder to remind you to account for extreme cases rather than a hard and fast rule.
- drdec 6y agoI think it might be even more useful to think about the time you saved - i.e. without a car, will you be spending more than 5% of your time on transportation?
- phoe-krk 6y agoData point: as someone who grew up in villages and small cities in eastern Europe, I've seen cars being used for whole hours a day in total. Driving somewhere for thirty minutes a day is still a short total commute time relative to what I have experienced in rural and little-urbanized regions.