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Parkology

In Traffic I suggested that optimal foraging models might be a useful way to think about parking. A press release I recently received, reprinted below, takes this to a certain (unscientific) extreme. The biggest takeaway I had from the piece is: Stephen Fry drives a black cab? He has claimed this helps him get around London easier. But how? Perhaps he also enjoys people waving at him at all the time?

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Posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 11:25 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Dude, Where’s My Future?

From the New York Times, 1925.

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Posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 5:53 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

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.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency: zoe@zpagency.com.

For speaking engagement inquiries, please contact
Jenna Meulemans at the Knopf Speaker Bureau.

Order Traffic from:

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Drive-on-the-left types can order the book from Amazon.co.uk.

For UK publicity enquiries please contact Rosie Glaisher at Penguin.

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