Tom Vanderbilt

Tom Vanderbilt is the author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

British Airways is one of the carriers that now offers fully reclining beds—in its premium-class cabins only, naturally.

The Recline of Civilization

The science of designing an airline passenger seat.

Meet Orion, a son-of-Apollo space capsule that, like the family wagon, will be comfortable on long trips and will still be around when the kids learn to drive.

America’s Next Spaceship

Designed to go where no man has gone before.

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