Originally Posted by
Papa Tom
I can't imagine doing anything more to avoid a catastrophic meeting with an automobile, but I'm sure many others felt the same way before it happened. Am I fooling myself, or is there a reason I've been riding the roads for 45 years without a single accident?
You're on the right track. Clearly you're doing one or two things right, with that record. You've also been lucky, but that's not bad. We all survive on an element of luck.
I think one important trick is memorizing lots of various patterns and then recognizing them. This comes only with practice. Then something unusual happens. You have to put that in your collections of patterns so you can recognize it if it ever recurs.