Tom Vanderbilt Quotes

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• The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.
• The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how…
• Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.
• As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell…
• Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the…
• Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the…
• Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience…
• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to…

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