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.'

— Tom Vanderbilt

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

— Tom Vanderbilt

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

— Tom Vanderbilt

Intersections are crash magnets.

— Tom Vanderbilt

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

— Tom Vanderbilt

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

— Tom Vanderbilt

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

— Tom Vanderbilt

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

— Tom Vanderbilt