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Traffic : why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us)
Vanderbilt, Tom.
Adult Nonfiction 629.283 V
Vanderbilt, Tom.
Adult Nonfiction 629.283 V
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| Contents | Page |
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| Prologue: Why I Became a Late Merger (and Why You Should Too) | p. 3 |
| Chapter 1 - Why Does the Other Lane Always Seem Faster? How Traffic Messes with Our Heads | |
| Shut Up, I Can't Hear You: Anonymity, Aggression, and the Problems of Communicating While Driving | p. 19 |
| Are You Lookin's at Me? Eye Contact, Stereotypes, and Social Interaction on the Road | p. 27 |
| Waiting in Line, Waiting in Traffic: Why the Other Lane Always Moves Faster | p. 40 |
| Postscript: And Now, the Secrets of Late Merging Revealed | p. 45 |
| Chapter 2 - Why You're Not as Good a Driver as You Think You Are | |
| If Driving Is So Easy, Why Is It So Hard for a Robot? What Teaching Machines to Drive Teaches Us About Driving | p. 51 |
| How's My Driving? How the Hell Should I Know? Why Lack of Feedback Fails Us on the Road | p. 57 |
| Chapter 3 - How Our Eyes and Minds Betray Us on the Road | |
| Keep Your Mind on the Road: Why It's So Hard to Pay Attention in Traffic | p. 74 |
| Objects in Traffic Are More Complicated Than They Appear: How Our Driving Eyes Deceive Us | p. 89 |
| Chapter 4 - Why Ants Don't Get into Traffic Jams (and Humans Do): On Cooperation as a Cure for Congestion | |
| Meet the World's Best Commuter: What We Can Learn from Ants, Locusts, and Crickets | p. 102 |
| Playing God in Los Angeles | p. 108 |
| When Slower Is Faster, or How the Few Defeat the Many: Traffic Flow and Human Nature | p. 119 |
| Chapter 5 - Why Women Cause More Congestion Than Men (and Other Secrets of Traffic) | |
| Who Are All These People? The Psychology of Commuting | p. 131 |
| The Parking Problem: Why We Are Inefficient Parkers and How This Causes Congestion | p. 142 |
| Chapter 6 - Why More Roads Lead to More Traffic (and What to Do About It) | |
| The Selfish Commuter | p. 153 |
| A Few Mickey Mouse Solutions to the Traffic Problem | p. 161 |
| Chapter 7 - When Dangerous Roads Are Safer | |
| The Highway Conundrum: How Drivers Adapt to the Road They See | p. 176 |
| The Trouble with Traffic Signs-and How Getting Rid of Them Can Make Things Better for Everyone | p. 186 |
| Forgiving Roads or Permissive Roads? The Fatal Flaws of Traffic Engineering | p. 204 |
| Chapter 8 - How Traffic Explains the World: On Driving with a Local Accent | |
| "Good Brakes, Good Horn, Good Luck": Plunging into the Maelstrom of Delhi Traffic | p. 211 |
| Why New Yorkers Jaywalk (and Why They Don't in Copenhagen): Traffic as Culture | p. 216 |
| Danger: Corruption Ahead-the Secret Indicator of Crazy Traffic | p. 231 |
| Chapter 9 - Why You Shouldn't Drive with a Beer-Drinking Divorced Doctor Named Fred on Super Bowl Sunday in a Pickup Truck in Rural Montana: What's Risky on the Road and Why | |
| Semiconscious Fear: How We Misunderstand the Risks of the Road | p. 244 |
| Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Risk on the Road Is So Complicated | p. 248 |
| The Risks of Safety | p. 262 |
| Epilogue: Driving Lessons | p. 277 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 287 |
| Notes | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 385 |
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