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As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'

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Tom Vanderbilt
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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