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COMMUTER SCIENCE

CLASS: ELECTRIC // CAR: TESLA MODEL 3 // TASK: COMMUTING

Back in more innocent times (2019), a survey reported that the average UK commute had reached 62 minutes a day, with 15 per cent of workers spending more than 102 minutes on the move to and from the office. All moot in the end, considering within months most of us would be sat at home trying to work the office VPN and waiting for our sourdough loaves to rise.

Ah, but weren’t we glad to get that hour back, time. A chance to gather your thoughts and refocus the mind. I reflected on all of this sitting on the drive in a Tesla Model 3, commuting precisely nowhere and frankly enjoying the hell out of it.

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