Finally, a Book for my Fellow Commuters

[Eric P]

Amazon.com
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: How could no one have written this book before? These days we spend almost as much time driving as we do eating (in fact, we do a lot of our eating while driving), but I can't remember the last time I saw a book on all the time we spend stuck in our cars. It's a topic of nearly universal interest, though: everybody has a strategy for beating the traffic. Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) has plenty of advice for those shortcut schemers (Vanderbilt may well convince you to become, as he has, a dreaded "Late Merger"), but more than that it's the sort of wide-ranging contrarian compendium that makes a familiar subject new. I'm not the first or last to call Traffic the Freakonomics of cars, but it's true that it fits right in with the school of smart and popular recent books by Leavitt, Gladwell, Surowiecki, Ariely, and others that use the latest in economic, sociological, psychological, and in this case civil engineering research to make us rethink a topic we live with every day. Want to know how much city traffic is just people looking for parking? (It's a lot.) Or why street signs don't work (but congestion pricing does), why new cars crash more than old cars, and why Saturdays now have the worst traffic of the week? Read Traffic, or better yet, listen to the audio book on your endless commute. --Tom Nissley

http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307264785/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217362736&sr=8-1

[MrAngryFace]

I drive defense because I dont wanna die

[Van Cruncheon]

i am totally getting the audiobook of this

[TVC15]

I drive defense because I dont wanna die

I think the only way to drive is aggressively around here; the way that makes orphans out of children and, uh, parents that no longer have children out of parents that previously had children.

[MrAngryFace]

Nah im a really good defensive driver cause im so paranoid and on edge

[Kestastrophe]

Cool, I will definitely read this. My wife is a completely reckless driver sometimes, but whenever I say anything, she cracks instantly and goes off about. This is despite the fact that we recently dropped $500 on a insurance deductible to fix our car door, because she ran into a stationary pole in our apartment complex. Hopefully this book will give me some ammo to use on that biyotch

[Eric P]

today my commute doubled because some cunt decided to get himself killed 10 miles away from any road i need to travel, but due to the connectivity of dc traffic, it fucked me.

yay

[APF]

I drive defense because I dont wanna die

I think the only way to drive is aggressively around here; the way that makes orphans out of children and, uh, parents that no longer have children out of parents that previously had children.

The word you're looking for is "happy."

[Madrun Badrun]

Nah im a really good defensive driver cause im so paranoid and on edge

You sure it's not because your a part Asian and thus a part slower than the others on the road?

[brawndolicious]

I never have to commute during rush hours but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of hyper-milers (they never go above 55) around here.  That's really not safe when everybody else is doing 75-80 at those times.

[MrAngryFace]

I dont own a cravat, shup

[Flannel Boy]

I drive aggressively. Though I've learned my lesson after that $300 ticket.

[Madrun Badrun]

I dont own a cravat, shup

SHUP