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Traffic : why we drive the way we do (and what it says about us) / Tom Vanderbilt

By:

Vanderbilt, Tom

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 402 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780307264787

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DDC classification:

629.283 VAN 22

Summary: Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are only a few of the remarkable dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores in this fascinating tour through the mysteries of the road. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	629.283 VAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		015493

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-383) and index.

Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are only a few of the remarkable dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores in this fascinating tour through the mysteries of the road. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us.