16 Quotes by 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.

In English-language speech, we spend five times as much time producing vowels as consonants. In singing, that ratio can hit two hundred to one.

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

Intersections are crash magnets.

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.’

It’s probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control.

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 on guard.