Key Insights From:
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
By Tom Vanderbilt
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11 Minute Read
Published: Aug 11, 2009
Key Insights From:
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
By Tom Vanderbilt
Audio Available |
11 Minute Read
Published: Aug 11, 2009
What You'll Learn:
Driving is a common activity throughout the world, but it also reveals a whole host of quirks and tics of human nature. In this exploratory sociology and psychology of traffic, journalist Tom Vanderbilt holds a mirror up to road culture and wonders what it means.
Key Insights:
- There are legal rules of the road, and then there are cultural rules of the road.
- Driving is the most complex workaday task you complete on a regular basis.
- The animal kingdom has a lot to teach us about traffic systems and collective intelligence.
- The number of cars on the road and road fatality rates tend to rise together, but eventually, road fatality rates drop.
- India has lots of car accidents, but far fewer than you would expect.
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