A Very Brief History of Why Americans Hate Their Commutes

"travel to and from work constitutes ... 19 percent of person-miles."

I find that incredibly hard to believe, like the rest of the article is a parody around it, or its an honest typo (perhaps 89 percent?)

It would imply everyone living in my suburban city of about 100K people drives 160 miles, per day, to go shopping and to restaurants or something. Just not seeing it. I got a new car around Halloween, and I've only driven a couple hundred non-commute miles since then despite a couple thousand commute miles. I'm surprised I've driven that many non-commute miles.