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Monday Morning Traffic

Some random things on a too-busy Monday morning:

I’m briefly quoted in this piece about the ins-and-outs of parallel parking.

I also show up briefly and (seemingly) unidentified in this Good Morning America piece about Iain Couzin and ant traffic.

More on the theoretical physics of traffic. “A traffic jam starts with two vehicles and keeps on growing,” says Morris Flynn of the University of Alberta.

Why you shouldn’t help direct traffic at a crash site or similar situation.

New Mexico five-year-old sentenced for not wearing seat belt.

Roadguy ponders: Are shopping-mall stop signs optional?

Black-market parking: “Rogue valets” exposed in Los Angeles

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

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