Every highway, every parking lot, every missing sidewalk was a choice. Find out exactly what that choice has cost your life — in numbers you can't unsee.
The average American loses 225 hours every year to their commute. That's not a personal problem. That's infrastructure built around cars instead of people.
The average American spends over $12,000 per year just to own and operate a car. In cities designed for people, that number is a fraction of the cost.
THIS WASN'T AN ACCIDENT.
IT WAS A CHOICE.
I grew up in a suburb where every trip required a car. Houses. One park. A couple churches. The nearest train was 45 minutes away on foot. No bus stops. To exist beyond my block required someone else's car, someone else's time, someone else's permission.
I didn't know that was designed. That for decades, American cities were deliberately built to make car ownership mandatory — zoning laws that separated homes from jobs, highways that cut through communities, parking minimums that consumed land that could have been parks, housing, or transit.
DRIVETIME exists to make that invisible cost visible. In hours. In dollars. In years of your life. Not as a policy debate — as your personal reality.
Because when people see the numbers, they stop blaming themselves for being tired. They start asking why their city was built this way. And they start demanding something better.
Find out how many hours, work days, and years of your life your commute steals from you annually.
Uncover the full hidden cost of car ownership — payments, depreciation, parking, tickets, and everything in between.
Find out how much CO2 your car emits, how many trees it takes to offset it, and what your neighborhood costs the planet.