2011-07-21
post/7892210498
quote 19:19:33
The [closure] got press worldwide, after all, not just because it was a silly-season story about superficial LA but because the denial of automotive freedom touches such sensitive nerves in so many places. We have all endured traffic snarls on mini-epic scale; we’ve felt that panic, that sense of helpless trapped terror. We’ve wondered: what if it never ended?
Chris Turner: What Carmageddon taught us about behavioral economics.