American drivers put a record number of mileage on their vehicles last year — roughly 3.15 trillion miles, or enough to make roughly 337 round trips to Pluto.
These figures were just released by the Federal Highway Administration, which says they mark an important milestone: The number of vehicle miles traveled in 2015 finally surpassed the highs last seen in 2007, before the Great Recession.
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