Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)
Verfasst: 09.08.2008, 06:07
TRAFFIC - Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us).
By Tom Vanderbilt.
402 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95.
Traffic jams are not, by and large, caused by flaws in road design but by flaws in human nature. While this is bad news for drivers — there’s not much to be done about human nature — it is good news for readers of Tom Vanderbilt’s new book. “Traffic” is not a dry examination of highway engineering; it’s a surprising, enlightening look at the psychology of human beings behind the steering wheels. An alternate title for the book might be “***.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books ... ach-t.html
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First Chapter
‘Traffic’
By TOM VANDERBILT
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/books ... -chap.html