Comments on: How does the Drive Less Challenge work?

By: alevin

alevin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:10:35 +0000

There is a bug on that screen. The developers are aware of it, and it will be fixed soon.

By: Bill Hilton

Bill Hilton — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:15:01 +0000

On the page for setting my current driving and the goals, should the left-most boxes reflect total driving or driving with others in the car? Are the goal boxes intended to be parallel with the current info?

By: Pete Shirk

Pete Shirk — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:35:35 +0000

Why not encourage employers to be more supportive of employees working at home, say, 1 day a week. In this electronic age there is no need for all employees to come in every day. In fact, sutdies have shown that workers not in the office oftena are more productive due to less interruptions and non-essential distractions.

But most employers react to proposals about tele-communting as if employees have to be watched in order to ensure they are working.

By: alevin

alevin — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:10:17 +0000

Answer: For this running of the challenge, it’s too late to add features.

But if you don’t drive, that certainly shows up in the amount of miles you travelled, and if you filled out a your baseline, then you can see the change as improvement compared to your goal.

Avoiding a trip is certainly a great way to reduce carbon emissions – would you like to share a story about how you use telecommuting to avoid driving? You can post on the website at http://drivelesschallenge.com – click Share Your STory.

By: alevin

alevin — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:07:30 +0000

Question from Heyward Robinson:

A friend at work asked about getting credit for telecommuting (and in general trips not taken). Can we add this category next year?