Traffic
- Author Tom Vanderbilt
- Narrator David Slavin
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 6 November 2008
- Run Time 5 hours and 46 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Psychology, Sociology, Transport: general interest.
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The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tom Vanderbilt's informative work, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What it Says About Us), read by David Slavin.
Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? What does the way you drive say about you? Is the road a microcosm of society or an autonomous republic that functions according to its own set of rules? Does traffic work the same all over the world? Traffic Signals answers these and many other questions, plunging head-on into traffic, viewing it not simply as a social ill or as a design problem, but as a leading cultural indicator and a living, organic model of what physicists call 'emergent collective behavior', of things which often happen for no discernible reason...
Downloadable audiobook edition. Running time approx 6 hours. Abridged.
| Author | Tom Vanderbilt |
|---|---|
| Narrator | David Slavin |
| Duration | 5 hours and 46 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9780141808895 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Genre | Psychology, Sociology, Transport: general interest |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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