Accidental Truths

[image error] Yesterday, while walking to my local Whole Foods store, I saw an accident in the making. Two cars backing up, each in the direction of the other. I started running, but it was too late. There was the tinsel shatter of a split SUV fender and the corresponding yelps.

No one was hurt, of course, but what happened afterward was instructive. One driver was clearly far more to blame than the other (she had continued accelerating, while the other vehicle had stopped), but it was that driver who w...