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Traffic Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

Tom Vanderbilt

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 remarkab...

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99% Invisible

It was discussed as a book about how we drive and what it means, with the podcast host suggesting that every few pages could be their own episode.

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My name is Tom Vanderbilt. I'm a writer in New York and author of Traffic, Why We Drive The Way We Do and What It Says About Us.

— Episode: Built for Speed

Episode: Built for Speed

It was discussed as a book about how we drive and what it means, with the podcast host suggesting that every few pages could be their own episode.

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My name is Tom Vanderbilt. I'm a writer in New York and author of Traffic, Why We Drive The Way We Do and What It Says About Us.

Episode: Trompe L'oeil

Tom Vanderbilt introduced himself as the author of Traffic, a book about why we drive the way we do and what it reveals about us, and the hosts praised the book as terrific.

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This is Tom Vanderbilt. My name is Tom Vanderbilt. I'm a writer in New York and author of Traffic, Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us.

Every three pages of Tom's terrific book, Traffic, I could probably turn into a 99% invisible episode.

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