"Drive safe!" my father always told me when we parted. A good thing to attempt, as driving unsafe doesn't work. But there's no such thing as driving safe. Cheri Brenna did (see our May 22 post).
In fact, drivers make mistakes that lead to crashes on a regular, frequent, statistically predictable basis. Here's what Malcolm Gladwell wrote in The New Yorker, and we noted in NineShift, page 153:
"Every 2 miles, the average driver makes 400 observations, 40 decisions and one mistake. Once every 500 miles, one of those mistakes leads to a near collision, and once every 61,000 miles one of the mistakes leads to a crash."
There's no such thing as driving safe. The only way to guarantee you won't be in a car crash is not to drive. Photo: Malcolm Gladwell.
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