Key Insights From:
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
By Tom Vanderbilt
Psychology Science and Technology Society and Culture
Audio Available | 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
Psychology Science and Technology Society and Culture
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.

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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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