Seeing through the blind corner
There’s a blind corner down by the allotments near the school that parents in SUVs have to crawl around. Whichever way they’re coming from, they don't know if the exit is safe. All they know is that it’s a high-risk area They stick tight to the side when they really want to take a wide line for better visibility. But if they go wide, then they’re on the wrong side of the road. So, they crane their necks for an impossible view and slow to a snail’s pace Often, they meet another car or a pedestrian and have to reverse uphill, around the corner, just to let someone else pass. There’s no rule about priority and no clear right or wrong. They just have to work out, silently, who will make the concession Later in the day, those same two vehicles might approach the bend from opposite directions again. No preference or tribalism, just a situation, a state of affairs they've ended up in Each driver only knows their own approach; information they have no way of revealing to the other. The...