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It sat on the dashboard or on the steering column, a chromed box with numbers on little drums behind a glass window, and a lever on the side…
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In 1974 riding an American city bus required equipment. You needed tokens, bought in advance from a booth somewhere else, or the exact coins, because the farebox gave…
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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 —…