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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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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
- 1 There are legal rules of the road, and then there are cultural rules of the road.
- 2 Driving is the most complex workaday task you complete on a regular basis.
- 3 The animal kingdom has a lot to teach us about traffic systems and collective intelligence.
- 4 The number of cars on the road and road fatality rates tend to rise together, but eventually, road fatality rates drop.
- 5 India has lots of car accidents, but far fewer than you would expect.
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