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.

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.

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.’

Intersections are crash magnets.

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

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.

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

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 it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

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

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.