“As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'”
Tom Vanderbilt“Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do“Intersections are crash magnets.”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do“As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do“In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do“Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do“Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do“Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do“The road itself tells us far more than signs do.”
Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do