An edition of Traffic (2008)

Traffic

why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)

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An edition of Traffic (2008)

Traffic

why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)

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Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This audiobook will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works. -- Publisher details.

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Publisher
Allen Lane, Penguin
Language
English
Pages
402

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Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
2009, Vintage Canada
in English - Vintage Canada ed., 2009.
Cover of: Traffic
Traffic: why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
2008, Allen Lane, Penguin
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Table of Contents

Prologue: Why I Became a Late Merger (and Why You Should Too)
Ch. 1. Why Does the Other Lane Always Seem Faster? How Traffic Messes with Our Heads
Ch. 2. Why Youre Not as Good a Driver as You Think You Are
Ch. 3. How Our Eyes and Minds Betray Us on the Road
Ch. 4. Why Ants Dont Get into Traffic Jams (and Humans Do): On Cooperation as a Cure for Congestion
Ch. 5. Why Women Cause More Congestion Than Men (and Other Secrets of Traffic)
Ch. 6. Why More Roads Lead to More Traffic (and What to Do About It)
Ch. 7. When Dangerous Roads Are Safer
Ch. 8. How Traffic Explains the World: On Driving with a Local Accent
Ch. 9. Why You Shouldnt Drive with a Beer-Drinking Divorced Doctor Named Fred on Super Bowl Sunday in a Pickup Truck in Rural Montana: Whats Risky on the Road and Why
Epilogue: Driving Lessons.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
629.283
Library of Congress
TL152.5

The Physical Object

Pagination
402 pages
Number of pages
402

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL32148477M
ISBN 10
0713999314, 0713999322
ISBN 13
9780713999310, 9780713999327
OCLC/WorldCat
229464068

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19907601W

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