Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) Audiobook (Free)
- Marc Cashman
- 13 h 32 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2008-07-29
Summary:
Would you end up being surprised that street rage could be good for culture? That most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? Or you could gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its degrees of corruption? These are only a few of the exceptional dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores with this exciting tour through the mysteries of the road.
Based on exhaustive study and interviews with generating experts and targeted traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood from the everyday activity of traveling to about Traffic: Why We Drive just how We Do (and What It Says On the subject of Us) uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that clarify how traffic works, why we drive just how we perform, and what our generating says on the subject of us. Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limitations and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers than we believe we are.
As Vanderbilt displays, traveling is a provocatively uncovering prism for examining how our thoughts work as well as the ways in which we interact with one another. Eventually, Traffic is about more than driving: it’s about individual nature. This audiobook changes just how we see ourselves as well as the world all around us. And who understands? It may even make us better motorists.
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