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Traffic Safety Film of the Week

They really get the tone of these things so right.

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Posted on Sunday, August 30th, 2009 at 3:04 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Drive Like Hell

Bumper sticker just seen on the Hutchison River Parkway: “Relax, God Is In Control.”

The driver, in an SUV (natch) was tailgating, weaving, speeding, and otherwise acting like a maniac (and in full violation of the Vatican’s recent edict on the “pastoral care” of fellow road users).

Who knows, maybe they were running late for the Rapture.

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Posted on Sunday, August 30th, 2009 at 3:03 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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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.

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.

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For UK publicity enquiries please contact Rosie Glaisher at Penguin.

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