To be fair, you could stop calling them accidents. "Avoiding collisions" does sound like it will get you to 80% of being a good driver. Like the author, I also

To be fair, you could stop calling them accidents. "Avoiding collisions" does sound like it will get you to 80% of being a good driver. Like the author, I also play chess, and I could have written the same advice. Maybe the charitable take here is "Don't worry about long term plans so much, at least until you manage to stop making trivial mistakes, evaluated looking retro-actively at decisions you made."