Tom Vanderbilt - Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) (2008)

[genrenaut]

So I keep telling people, "I'm reading this fascinating book about traffic,' and they're like, 'that doesn't sound that fascinating...' But actually, anyone who drives tends to have strongly held pet theories and peeves (and those who don't will generally have their own, from the vantage point of a non-driver), and this book explores them all

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[anonymous]

we actually have a family friend who's a professional traffic analyst for the RTA...knowing traffic intimately (eg the mini peak-hour surges, the impact the schools can have on streets several blocks away) gives her a completely different conception of topography...(Billy)

[genrenaut]

Even once you drive from not being able to, your sense of what the landscpae is, how it works and what your position in it is is altered in that way...