The book was not all bad. I enjoyed reading Vanderbilt's human interest stories and anecdotes. For example, there is a portion about how LA gets all the limousines to the Oscars on time. There really are a bunch of men watching and controlling the traffic signals. It is also interesting that there is a direct correlation on the type of government a country has and how its people drive.
This could have been an excellent book if it had a good edit. It could say the same thing in half the pages and rearranging some parts would make it flow better. The book has not changed how I drive nor how I react to traffic. I now understand the reason for a mile back-up on the highway for one stalled car, but I am not more patient about it.
Overall rating - 6 out of 10
I drove through construction the other day and the road was narrow and rather scary. I remembered from the book that I was safer there than on the open road with wider shoulders. I said we should start driving faster through the construction zone but alas we stuck to our safe driving.
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