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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the concealed and costly miracles in our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of travel, revealing the unusual truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic behind every trip we take and every click we make. Transportation dominates our daily existence. Hundreds, even millions of miles are inserted in everything we do and touch. We reside in a door-to-door universe that works so well, most Us citizens are scarcely alert to it. The grand ballet where we move ourselves and our products is equivalent to building the fantastic Pyramid, the Hoover Dam, and the Empire Status Building all per day. Every day. Yet, in the one highly visible area of the travel world - the part we drive - we suffer from milling commutes, a violent loss of life every a quarter-hour, a dire injury every 12 mere seconds, and crumbling infrastructure. Now, just how we move ourselves and our products is on the brink of great change, as a fresh mobility revolution upends the automobile culture that, for better and worse, built modern America. This unfolding revolution will disrupt lives and global trade, transforming our commutes, our vehicles, our metropolitan areas, our careers, and every aspect of culture, commerce, and the environment. We are, quite literally, at a fork in the street, though whether it'll lead us to Carmageddon or Carmaheaven has yet to be determined. Using interviews, data, and deep exploration of the concealed world of ports, traffic control centers, and the study labs determining our travel future, acclaimed journalist Edward Humes breaks down the complex movements of humans, goods, and machines as nothing you've seen prior, from ever more car-less people to the length UPS goes to deliver a leopard-printed telephone case. Tracking one day in the life of his family in Southern California, Humes uses their commutes, traffic jams, food halts, and online shopping excursions as a springboard to explore the paradoxes and challenges inherent inside our system. He eventually makes clear that travel is one of the few big things we can change - our personal selections do have a serious impact, and that fork in the street is approaching fast. Door to Door is a fascinating detective story, investigating the worldwide solid of supporting characters and technologies that contain enabled us to go from here to there - former, present, and future.
