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Index
Title Page
Prologue Why I Became a Late Merger (and Why You Should Too)
Chapter One Why Does the Other Lane Always Seem Faster? How Traffic Messes with Our Heads
Shut Up, I Can’t Hear You: Anonymity, Aggression, and the Problems of Communicating While Driving
Are You Lookin’ at Me? Eye Contact, Stereotypes, and Social Interaction on the Road
Waiting in Line, Waiting in Traffic: Why the Other Lane Always Moves Faster
Postscript: And Now, the Secrets of Late Merging Revealed
Chapter Two Why You’re Not as Good a Driver as You Think You Are
If Driving Is So Easy, Why Is It So Hard for a Robot? What Teaching Machines to Drive Teaches Us About Driving
How’s My Driving? How the Hell Should I Know? Why Lack of Feedback Fails Us on the Road
Chapter Three How Our Eyes and Minds Betray Us on the Road
Keep Your Mind on the Road: Why It’s So Hard to Pay Attention in Traffic
Objects in Traffic Are More Complicated Than They Appear: How Our Driving Eyes Deceive Us
Chapter Four Why Ants Don’t Get into Traffic Jams (and Humans Do): On Cooperation as a Cure for Congestion
Meet the World’s Best Commuter: What We Can Learn from Ants, Locusts, and Crickets
Playing God in Los Angeles
When Slower Is Faster, or How the Few Defeat the Many: Traffic Flow and Human Nature
Chapter Five Why Women Cause More Congestion Than Men (and Other Secrets of Traffic)
Who Are All These People? The Psychology of Commuting
The Parking Problem: Why We Are Inefficient Parkers and How This Causes Congestion
Chapter Six Why More Roads Lead to More Traffic (and What to Do About It)
The Selfish Commuter
A Few Mickey Mouse Solutions to the Traffic Problem
Chapter Seven When Dangerous Roads Are Safer
The Highway Conundrum: How Drivers Adapt to the Road They See
The Trouble with Traffic Signs—and How Getting Rid of Them Can Make Things Better for Everyone
Forgiving Roads or Permissive Roads? The Fatal Flaws of Traffic Engineering
Chapter Eight How Traffic Explains the World: On Driving with a Local Accent
“Good Brakes, Good Horn, Good Luck”: Plunging into the Maelstrom of Delhi Traffic
Why New Yorkers Jaywalk (and Why They Don’t in Copenhagen): Traffic as Culture
Danger: Corruption Ahead—the Secret Indicator of Crazy Traffic
Chapter Nine Why You Shouldn’t Drive with a Beer-Drinking Divorced Doctor Named Fred on Super Bowl Sunday in a Pickup Truck in Rural Montana: What’s Risky on the Road and Why
Semiconscious Fear: How We Misunderstand the Risks of the Road
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Risk on the Road Is So Complicated
The Risks of Safety
Epilogue: Driving Lessons
Acknowledgments
Notes
A Note About the Author
Also by Tom Vanderbilt
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