Jake Ward, an editor of ‘Popular Science’ magazine, travels the world on a quest to solve the persistent riddles of traffic and driving. Taking a high-performance driving course in collision avoidance, jumping into the world’s most advanced driving simulator, manning the nerve center that controls all traffic lights in New York City, and driving along with a power-lifting ex-postal worker with a violent history of road rage, Jake learns that the solutions to traffic are often not what they seem.
