I'm not here to add My distance of commute. I definite (My commute) for when I have to go to the grocery store, etc. When I go to a grocery store, in which I drive My bike on My return trip (to where I began from). ----And using those plastic grocery-store bags---- I make sure that AT LEAST ONE of those bags will be hanging on the left-side handlebar. The BULKIEST / HEAVIEST BAG. >>>So if / when any car attempts to get too close to Me, that it will bang onto its door. And it works; when I hang that bag there, I get more space given between Me and those oncoming/passing motor vehicles.