Tom Vanderbilt is author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do. Follow him on Twitter.

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Can Eliminating Parking Spots Make Cities More Efficient?

Tom Vanderbilt

Sept 18, 2015 11:47 AM
How Hold Music Manipulates Your Mood

Tom Vanderbilt

Sept 08, 2014 11:30 PM
Is It Possible to Make an Unpickable Lock?

Tom Vanderbilt

March 13, 2013 12:00 AM
The Strange Things That Happen at a Lock-picking Convention

Tom Vanderbilt

March 12, 2013 7:19 AM
The American Who Shocked Victorian England by Picking the World’s Strongest Lock

Tom Vanderbilt

March 11, 2013 12:00 AM
Why D.C., of All Places, Has the Best Bike Sharing in the United States

Tom Vanderbilt

Jan 07, 2013 5:45 AM
The Brilliant Redesign of the Soda Can Tab

Tom Vanderbilt

Sept 24, 2012 3:44 AM
The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy

Tom Vanderbilt

Aug 14, 2012 11:45 AM
A Brief History of the Telephone, From Alexander Graham Bell to the iPhone

Tom Vanderbilt

May 15, 2012 6:15 AM
How I Snuck Into a Pantone Color Forecasting Meeting—and What I Learned

Tom Vanderbilt

April 27, 2012 6:33 AM
How America Can Start Walking Again

Tom Vanderbilt

April 13, 2012 6:30 AM
How Pedestrian-Friendly Is Your Neighborhood? Ask Walk Score.

Tom Vanderbilt

April 12, 2012 6:15 AM
What Scientists Know About the Way We Walk

Tom Vanderbilt

April 11, 2012 6:45 AM
The Crisis in American Walking: We Don’t

Tom Vanderbilt

April 10, 2012 6:28 AM
Can Parking Lots Be Great?

Tom Vanderbilt

March 31, 2012 12:10 AM
What’s the Best Way To Get Users To Embrace Mass Transit?

Tom Vanderbilt

Jan 19, 2012 1:48 PM
Highways Work Best When You Force Cars To Crawl Along at 55 MPH

Tom Vanderbilt

Oct 12, 2011 3:19 PM
The diverging diamond interchange: A new kind of intersection eliminates dangerous, time-wasting left turns completely.

Tom Vanderbilt

July 31, 2011 11:47 PM
Carmageddon #flightvsbike challenge: How a team of cyclists beat a Jet Blue flight from Burbank to Long Beach.

Tom Vanderbilt

July 16, 2011 8:01 PM
Carmegeddon: Can Los Angeles cyclists beat a plane from Burbank to Long Beach? How my idle tweet spawned an epic transportation showdown.

Tom Vanderbilt

July 15, 2011 5:26 PM