Nick Peluffo's Reviews > Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

Traffic advertises itself as a fun, light read, which is what I was looking for having just finished a deep and complex book, but it's nothing like that.

It is written almost like an academic journal at times, with a huge emphasis on research over opinion. It is dry, disengaging and lacks humour. There are over one hundred pages of acknowledgements and citations, demonstrating this is basically a list of research studies linked in some way to driving.

I was bombarded with a series of stats and facts, but I doubt I will remember a single one in a few days' time because they are delivered in such a flat way with little narrative to tie them together.

The whole book is basically: "We have all been in the situation when something dangerous happens on a road. One study revealed this thing happens more when we get distracted, and this occurs because we are human, or it might be because you are a man, inexperienced, or young and stupid."