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Traffic Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

11.08.2009

Verlag

Random House N.Y.

Seitenzahl

416

Maße (L/B/H)

19.9/13.3/2.8 cm

Gewicht

303 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-307-27719-0

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

11.08.2009

Verlag

Random House N.Y.

Seitenzahl

416

Maße (L/B/H)

19.9/13.3/2.8 cm

Gewicht

303 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-307-27719-0

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Traffic
  • Prologue
    Why I Became a Late Merger (and Why You Should Too)

    Chapter One
    Why Does the Other Lane Always Seem Faster?
    How Traffic Messes with Our Heads

    Shut Up, I Can’t Hear You: Anonymity, Aggression, and the Problems of Communicating While Driving

    Are You Lookin’ at Me? Eye Contact, Stereotypes, and Social Interaction on the Road

    Waiting in Line, Waiting in Traffic: Why the Other Lane Always Moves Faster

    Postscript: And Now, the Secrets of Late Merging Revealed

    Chapter Two
    Why You’re Not as Good a Driver as You Think You Are

    If Driving Is So Easy, Why Is It So Hard for a Robot? What Teaching Machines to Drive Teaches Us About Driving

    How’s My Driving? How the Hell Should I Know? Why Lack of Feedback Fails Us on the Road

    Chapter Three
    How Our Eyes and Minds Betray Us on the Road

    Keep Your Mind on the Road: Why It’s So Hard to Pay Attention in Traffic 74

    Objects in Traffic Are More Complicated Than They Appear: How Our Driving Eyes Deceive Us

    Chapter Four
    Why Ants Don’t Get into Traffic Jams (and Humans Do): On Cooperation as a Cure for Congestion

    Meet the World’s Best Commuter: What We Can Learn from Ants, Locusts, and Crickets

    Playing God in Los Angeles

    When Slower Is Faster, or How the Few Defeat the Many: Traffic Flow and Human Nature

    Chapter Five
    Why Women Cause More Congestion Than Men (and Other Secrets of Traffic)

    Who Are All These People? The Psychology of Commuting

    The Parking Problem: Why We Are Inefficient Parkers and How This Causes Congestion

    Chapter Six
    Why More Roads Lead to More Traffic (and What to Do About It)

    The Selfish Commuter

    A Few Mickey Mouse Solutions to the Traffic Problem

    Chapter Seven
    When Dangerous Roads Are Safer

    The Highway Conundrum: How Drivers Adapt to the Road They See

    The Trouble with Traffic Signs–and How Getting Rid of Them Can Make Things Better for Everyone

    Forgiving Roads or Permissive Roads? The Fatal Flaws of Traffic Engineering

    Chapter Eight
    How Traffic Explains the World: On Driving with a Local Accent

    “Good Brakes, Good Horn, Good Luck”: Plunging into the Maelstrom of Delhi Traffic

    Why New Yorkers Jaywalk (and Why They Don’t in Copenhagen): Traffic as Culture

    Danger: Corruption Ahead– the Secret Indicator of Crazy Traffic

    Chapter Nine
    Why You Shouldn’t Drive with a Beer-Drinking Divorced Doctor Named Fred on Super Bowl Sunday in a Pickup Truck in Rural Montana: What’s Risky on the Road and Why

    Semiconscious Fear: How We Misunderstand the Risks of the Road

    Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Risk on the Road Is So Complicated

    The Risks of Safety

    Epilogue: Driving Lessons


    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    Index