“In science, Germans tend to come up with things like the uncertainty principle. Americans tend to come up with things like the atomic bomb (Budiansky 312).” As Americans we tend to attack our problems vigorously and head on. However, Germans tend to sit and think about their problems and then come up with a solution in their head, and dissolve their solution out of their inner consciousness (Budiansky 312). Throughout this passage Stephen Budiansky stays semi-neutral on his approach to the science of how traffic becomes congested, but I believe he favors the Germans science theory more than the Americans practicality theory. German theoretical physicists began studying the flow of traffic and were perplexed by the reasons of how traffic
