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““'Can you imagine, 30 years ago, saying nobody will make coffee at home?' Nancy McGuckin, a travel researcher in Washington, D.C.””

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Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it,…

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“This raises the interesting, if seemingly outlandish, question of why car drivers, virtually alone among users of wheeled transport, do not wear helmets. Yes,…

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Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

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“There is a simple mantra you can carry about you in traffic: When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than…

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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…

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“It's probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control.”

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