[don-code]

I find driving to be one of the most useless ways of spending my time, and if it's for more than half an hour, I do try to figure out some way to increase the value of that time.

I have a weekly commitment that leaves me driving home (~40min) at 9pm, and I usually eat dinner (just a sandwich) while I drive. That also has the advantage of making it so that I'm not eating an hour before bed.

If I know that I need to call someone, I'll usually try to schedule that call while I'm driving. I used to take meetings while driving as well, though I stopped because it was perceived poorly by others.

What's sort of sad is that I can take public transit to all of my regular commitments, and that lets me keep doing something (reading, working, whatever). The schedules are poor, though, and they blow my commute times completely out of the water. For example, I've got a 5-7pm commitment that is a 15-minute drive one way, but if I wanted to go by bus, I'd have to leave at 3:30pm (latest it comes before I need to be there), and get back on it at 8pm (the earliest it comes after I'm done).

[louthy]

> take meetings while driving as well, though I stopped because it was perceived poorly by others.

The lack of self awareness here is astounding. You’re in control of a two ton bullet, please concentrate on the road. Killing somebody because you’re not paying full attention is not a good look.

[don-code]

I agree with you in regard to paying attention while driving, but the perception issue was actually around "you can't be bothered to be at your desk for meetings, so we perceive you as lazy", not "you're a risk to those around you, so we perceive you as irresponsible".

[fragmede]

Why are you jumping to the worst possible interpretation? Who would you kill? America is full of long stretches of double digit hour drives through cornfields where you're not going to run into anything. At worse you'd hurt yourself. Obviously if you're in a city and there are people, even kids around, and you're not giving driving the attention it needs, you're an asshole. Fuck you. But how about not jumping to the conclusion that OP is an asshole?

[louthy]

> Why are you jumping to the worst possible interpretation? Who would you kill?

The person you didn’t see because you weren’t paying attention to the road. Regardless of how busy or not it is.

[appplication]

It’s not useless though. It allows you to engage your default mode network, which is otherwise insanely suppressed in the barrage of constant stimulation that is modern life.