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Byline: KAW
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), by Tom Vanderbilt, Knopf, 416 pages, $25.
The entire book is fascinating, but we can wholeheartedly recommend Traffic for a single chapter: "Why You're Not As Good a Driver As You Think You Are.
Vanderbilt does not directly address teen-driver education and licensing, but his insights into driver psychology are worth the cover price.
Most drivers rate themselves as above average. Driver's Edge founder Jeff Payne noticed this when he asked parents and teens attending his program to rate their own car-handling skills on a scale of one to 10.
"They inevitably average eight or nine, Payne says. "Really? There's, like, Michael Schumacher, Mario Andretti and then you?
Vanderbilt finds that not only do drivers not recognize their own unsafe ...
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