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Traffic (Hardcover)

By: Tom Vanderbilt (Author)


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"Backed by an impressive array of psychological, sociological, historical, anecdotal and economic research, the author's presentation is always engaging and often sobering...."

"TRAFFIC is not a dry examination of highway engineering; it's a surprising, enlightening look at the psychology of human beings behind the steering wheels."

Publisher's note

An intriguing study of the mysteries of the road analyzes the complex social, physical, psychological, and technical factors that dictate how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving reveals about us, discussing the unintended consequences of attempts to engineer safety, why plans to protect pedestrians can lead to more accidents, and more. 150,000 first printing.

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Traffic, as any car-driving American can tell you, is a maddening aspect of modern life. One of the only good things to have come out of it is Tom Vanderbilt's fascinating, hilarious, and wonderfully researched book, TRAFFIC, which explores the unexpected, and unexpectedly interesting, psychological and social forces that leads to gridlock, accidents, rubber-necking, and the other quirks of car culture. TRAFFIC is filled with strange facts (drivers drive more recklessly around bikers with helmets, cars in a 15-block area of Los Angeles drove 3,600 extra miles a day while looking for parking), and, though the subject is exasperating, the writing is exhilarating.



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