Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well…

- Tom Vanderbilt

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel o…

- Tom Vanderbilt

Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version …

- Tom Vanderbilt

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.

- Tom Vanderbilt

Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-openin…

- Tom Vanderbilt

As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a…

- Tom Vanderbilt

The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the r…

- 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, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how to behave, a…

- Tom Vanderbilt