Why do I so unmistakably determine that a woman is driving a nearby powerful SUV or inconspicuous sedan? And even, as a rule, a blonde?
Why do I so unmistakably determine that a woman is driving a nearby powerful SUV or inconspicuous sedan? And even, as a rule, a blonde? How to behave on the road so that the overall speed is higher, and at the same time not feel like a loser, who was overtaken by twenty cars in two minutes? Why do we try so hard to get in the parking lot closer to the entrance to the store, if we still find that we have nothing to gain compared to the driver of the bright «bug» who parked in the far corner? Anyone who even occasionally drives a car (even as a passenger) asks such questions. And it turns out that Tom Vanderbilt, “a specialist in design, culture and technology,” as the publisher’s website informs us, has the answers. The charm of his book lies in its irresistible and contagious reflection on the facts of everyday life, in a thorough analysis of what it does not occur to us to consider worthy of attention. Under the author’s gaze, in the chaos of traffic, universal human nature emerges: mind and emotions, national and gender characteristics, selfishness, laziness, aggression and the eternal thirst for mutual understanding.
Mann, Ivanov, Ferber, 432 p.