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I keep my cars a long time so I have service records of mileage driven in past years. I used to drive about 12K miles per year, now that is down to about 8K. That's a 33% drop.
What changed? Many fewer miles driven to go shopping.
Ten years ago, if I needed something I'd drive to several stores and use up several hours hunting for the item.
Now, it's a few key keystrokes on a laptop, click on it, and it arrives in two days.
I save gas, time, wear and tear, and pollute less.
Perhaps the recent cuts in Automobile manufacturing reflect the cumulative effect of this change.
Yes, I work remote now (fly to/from client sites). I’m putting approximately 250 miles per month on my car. 10 years ago it was closer to 1100 per month.
I was driving upwards of 20K miles a year about 10 years ago, split half and half between commuting and pleasure. I was out and about all the time.
Now with a family where I am not taking off to wherever unknown every day, and also a job where I only go into the office 1 day a week, I drive about 5,000 miles a year.
I enjoy driving, but I find it nice when I can go a whole month without visiting a gas pump!
I do drive a bit less. I used to go up to the mountains at least 4 to 6 times a year to backpack but now limit it to only once or twice just to go camping and hiking. My back hates backpacking now unfortunately.
Probably more but thats only because our daughter moved further away which is a 100 mile round trip.
As far as work goes its probably about the same as before.
Since retiring a few years ago, probably less than 2k miles on each of my two vehicles per year vs about 10k each.
Retiring, online shopping, moving "in town" and, above all, buying a bicycle for both fresh air and exercise are all to blame.
In the old days, I always kept track of the mileage for service, now it is once a year for a full service regardless of the miles driven.
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