Varieties of Driving

Once again, the issue is cooperation. Here are two quotes from fascinating articles that tie traffic flows to philosophy -- one about a counterintuitive feat of traffic engineering, the other about NASCAR racing (though written by a RAND analyst who is best known for his books on Netwar and the like...).

Sources:

Roads Gone Wild: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic_pr.html
Social Science at 190mph: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_2/ronfeldt/index.html

My thanks to Annette Leung and Howard Rheingold for pointing me to thse two articles.