دانلود کتاب Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says about Us)

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Content: Why I became a late merger (and why you should too) --
Why does the other lane always seem faster? How traffic messes with our heads --
Shut up, I can\'t hear you: anonymity, aggression, and the problems of communicating while driving --
Are you lookin\' at me? Eye contact, stereotypes, and social interaction on the road --
Waiting in line, waiting in traffic: why the other lane always moves faster --
Postscript: and now, the secrets of late merging revealed --
Why you\'re not as good a driver as you think you are --
If driving is so easy, why is it so hard for a robot? What teaching machines to drive teaches us about driving --
How\'s my driving? How the hell should I know? Why lack of feedback fails us on the road --
How our eyes and minds betray us on the road --
Keep your mind on the road: why it\'s so hard to pay attention in traffic --
Objects in traffic are more complicated than they appear: how our driving eyes deceive us --
Why ants don\'t get into traffic jams (and humans do): cooperation as a cure for congestion --
Meet the world\'s best commuter: what we can learn from ants, locusts, and crickets --
Playing God in Los Angeles --
When slower is faster, or, How the few defeat the many: traffic flow and human nature --
Why women cause more congestion than men (and other secrets of traffic) --
Who are all these people? The psychology of commuting --
The parking problem: why we are inefficient parkers and how this causes congestion --
Why more roads lead to more traffic (and what to do about it) --
The selfish commuter --
A few Mickey Mouse solutions to the traffic problem --
When dangerous roads are safer --
The highway conundrum: how drivers adapt to the road they see --
The trouble with traffic signs--and how getting rid of them would be better for everyone --
Forgiving roads or permissive roads? The fatal flaws of traffic engineering --
How traffic explains the world: on driving with a local accent --
\"Good brakes, good horn, good luck!\": plunging into the maelstrom of Delhi traffic --
Why New Yorkers jaywalk (and why they don\'t in Copenhagen): traffic as culture --
Danger: corruption ahead--the secret indicator of crazy traffic --
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 --
Semiconscious fear: how we misunderstand the risks of the road --
Should I stay or should I go? Why risk on the road is so complicated --
The risks of safety --
Driving lessons.