Sounding One’s Own Horn III
A lot of write-ups are starting to come in, and these will be listed in a more permanent fashion over at the book site, www.howwedrive.com/traffic, but among some recent notices…
Discover says… “Follow the author on an engrossing (and heavily footnoted) tour through the neuroscience of highway illusions, the psychology of late merging, and other existential driving dilemmas.”
While Best Life opines, “Reading Vanderbilt’s book is a bit like a bump-and-go drive around the world with Malcolm Gladwell as your passenger.”
Over at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the word is: “Delightful… Vanderbilt … provides an engaging, informative, psychologically savvy account of the conscious and unconscious assumptions of individual drivers — and the variations in “car culture” around the world.”
Meanwhile, here’s a nice write-up from Mary Wisnewski, the transportation reporter for the
Chicago Sun-Times
At Streetsblog, one of my daily must-reads, I posted some off-the-cuff remarks on “motorist sociopathy”…
Metropolis magazine offers: “If politicians want to overcome the complexity of transportation problems, they will need to muster a lot more creativity and flexibility than they have thus far. They will need to look at the example of other countries with an open mind. They will need to think about infrastructure but also about human psychology. Traffic could be their textbook.”
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