And What it Says About Us
By Tom Vanderbilt
If you spend your life in traffic, read this book, just not while you are driving. If you took every car off the road, there would still be traffic. Ask anyone on a crowded subway. It is not the mode of transportation, it is the sheer number of people using a limited space that creates congestion. The problem is that we are driving very large vehicles at speeds faster than our senses can accurately depend on. Without radar or robotic controls we are at the mercy of everyone else’s driving skills. Vanderbilt argues that in some ways engineers have made driving so easy that drivers think they can use their phones or even text. Slow down and pay attention. I highly recommend this book.
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