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| Prologue: Why I Became a Late Merger (and Why You Should Too) | |
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| Why Does the Other Lane Always Seem Faster? How Traffic Messes with Our Heads | |
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| Shut Up, I Can't Hear You: Anonymity, Aggression, and the Problems of Communicating While Driving | |
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| Are You Lookin's at Me? Eye Contact, Stereotypes, and Social Interaction on the Road | |
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| Waiting in Line, Waiting in Traffic: Why the Other Lane Always Moves Faster | |
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| Postscript: And Now, the Secrets of Late Merging Revealed | |
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| Why You're Not as Good a Driver as You Think You Are | |
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| If Driving Is So Easy, Why Is It So Hard for a Robot? What Teaching Machines to Drive Teaches Us About Driving | |
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| How's My Driving? How the Hell Should I Know? Why Lack of Feedback Fails Us on the Road | |
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| How Our Eyes and Minds Betray Us on the Road | |
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| Keep Your Mind on the Road: Why It's So Hard to Pay Attention in Traffic | |
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| Objects in Traffic Are More Complicated Than They Appear: How Our Driving Eyes Deceive Us | |
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| Why Ants Don't Get into Traffic Jams (and Humans Do): On Cooperation as a Cure for Congestion | |
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| Meet the World's Best Commuter: What We Can Learn from Ants, Locusts, and Crickets | |
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| Playing God in Los Angeles | |
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| When Slower Is Faster, or How the Few Defeat the Many: Traffic Flow and Human Nature | |
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| Why Women Cause More Congestion Than Men (and Other Secrets of Traffic) | |
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| Who Are All These People? The Psychology of Commuting | |
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| The Parking Problem: Why We Are Inefficient Parkers and How This Causes Congestion | |
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| Why More Roads Lead to More Traffic (and What to Do About It) | |
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| The Selfish Commuter | |
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| A Few Mickey Mouse Solutions to the Traffic Problem | |
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| When Dangerous Roads Are Safer | |
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| The Highway Conundrum: How Drivers Adapt to the Road They See | |
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| The Trouble with Traffic Signs-and How Getting Rid of Them Can Make Things Better for Everyone | |
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| Forgiving Roads or Permissive Roads? The Fatal Flaws of Traffic Engineering | |
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| How Traffic Explains the World: On Driving with a Local Accent | |
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| "Good Brakes, Good Horn, Good Luck": Plunging into the Maelstrom of Delhi Traffic | |
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| Why New Yorkers Jaywalk (and Why They Don't in Copenhagen): Traffic as Culture | |
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| Danger: Corruption Ahead-the Secret Indicator of Crazy Traffic | |
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| 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 | |
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| Semiconscious Fear: How We Misunderstand the Risks of the Road | |
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| Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Risk on the Road Is So Complicated | |
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| The Risks of Safety | |
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| Epilogue: Driving Lessons | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |