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Ask an American where they are allowed to cross a road and they will tell you: at the corner, at the crossing, with the signal. Crossing anywhere else…
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A driver from almost anywhere else in the world, sitting in an American car for the first time, experiences a specific moment of alarm when the person driving…
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It is one of the most standardized objects in American life and almost nobody knows it was standardized on purpose. Every school bus is the same color. Not…
There is a way of analysing junctions that makes their differences obvious, and it is not the one most people use.
The usual way is to think about rules —…
The coach differs from every other mode in one respect: it travels through the landscape at ground level, stopping at ordinary places, rather than passing over or under it. Here…
The mistake is treating each journey as a separate problem to solve. The system has a logic, and learning the logic once is far quicker than working out ten routes…