unexpected maneuvers, even if slow, are also risky, which is something that seems counterintuitive at first but shouldn’t be. unpredictability in any direction

unexpected maneuvers, even if slow, are also risky, which is something that seems counterintuitive at first but shouldn’t be. unpredictability in any direction increases the risk of collision, which is why freeways have minimum speeds and incidentally why distracted driving is so dangerous, because it exponentiates unpredictability. we really need to collectively get past this idea that safety is bounded on one side, across all facets of our lives, because it’s usually not and that induced complacency has a way of coming back to bite us. (that’s not to say that the various risks are always substantial, just that they’re not all sitting neatly on one side.)