average miles a person drives per day
If you guessed under 30 miles per day, you would be right. Maciej Korzekwa, ThinkStock. A new American Driving Survey from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the Urban Institute takes a comprehensive look at how much Americans drive on a daily and yearly basis in an effort to reveal trends about driving habits.irst-year data, collected from May 2013 through May 2014 from 3,319 drivers, reveals that Americans drive, on average, 29.2 miles per day, making two trips that total 46 minutes.