ATLANTA — I have been open about having my share of speeding tickets over the years. My most recent, in 2020, prompted me to learn cruise control . Society pushes us to go faster and we falsely believe that pushing the high registers of our speedometers will save us gobs of time.

In fact, timesaving and safety are on very divergent paths.

My brother, Stephen, sent me an Instagram Reel from lecturer Rory Sutherland that addressed this very issue. Sutherland, who co-authored the book “Transport for Humans,” spoke in the clip about how our measure of miles or kilometers per hour tricks us into thinking we are gaining equal amounts of time, the faster we go. Sutherland explained how if we measured our progress in minutes per 10 miles, we would more easily see that faster speeds yield

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