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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
Really interesting, pop-psychology look at driving, and to a greater degree, how we behave. If you liked The Tipping Point, Freakonomics, or The Wisdom of Crowds, you'll like this.
Loved the concept and I learned so much. Just a bit, meandering? Wordy? Not sure. Maybe different editing.
An enjoyable read. It won't have much impact on the way I drive, but it changed the way I looked at certain aspects of driving and road safety.
For so many years I thought nonfiction was boring...but now that I've read several NF titles, I have changed my mind.
I learned so many interesting theories about traffic in this book. I think this book even made me a better driver!
I learned so many interesting theories about traffic in this book. I think this book even made me a better driver!
I liked it and what it says is very important but this felt too much like reprinted columns.
This was probably the most interesting non-fiction book I read in 2013, and that's saying something. Why do people in Netherlands drive so orderly, and people in India not so? The way we drive is both psychological and sociological; we're stuck in a box with a horn as our only means of communication; we do things that are illogical to be 'polite'; we all think we are good drivers but mathematically half of us have to be below average. I've been praising this book to friends and family for the past few months and I finally finished it. There are so many statistics collected on driving, and this book uses them to come to some pretty radical conclusions. Did you know, for example, that it's safer to ride a bicycle in the street than on the sidewalk? That if you wear a bike helmet cars will give you less berth on the road?, or that if you use hand signals when you are cycling you are more likely to get hit? It's all about the attention we pay when driving, and what 'wakes people up' to be more careful when they are driving. You don't have to buy it... we have it here at Laurens County Library.
"Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are."
Meant to read this ten years ago and just got around to it. Still worth it! Makes a subject you'd never imaging being interested in reflect a wide range of human behaviors. Many are probably widely known now, but the book is well written and remains relevant.
I don't drive much and read this from more of a bicyclists perspective. Really interesting stuff but for a time made me much more nervous on the road.