Tom Vanderbilt Quotes

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

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

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

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.'

Intersections are crash magnets.

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

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

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