Tom Vanderbilt

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

Intersections are crash magnets.

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 hell every day.'

In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

Traffic was as much an emotional problem as it was a mechanical one.

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.