Full name: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

Author: Tom Vanderbilt Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Psychology, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780307277190 0307277194

In this brilliant, lively, and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we think we are. He demonstrates why plans to protect pedestrians from cars often lead to more accidents. He uncovers who is more likely to honk at whom, and why. He explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our quest for safety, and even identifies the most common mistake drivers make in parking lots. Traffic is about more than driving: it's about human nature. It will change the way we see ourselves and the world around us, and it may even make us better drivers. Similar books: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters The Social Leap by William von Hippel Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks The Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen Future Babble by Dan Gardner The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph Ledoux The Origins of Sex by Faramerz Dabhoiwala Faster by James Gleick The Book of Woe by Gary Greenberg Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt The Guardian of All Things by Michael S. Malone In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik Rock Breaks Scissors by William Poundstone Everything Is Obvious* by Duncan J. Watts