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| Two drivers use their cell phones after a minor car accident in a parking lot. |
I saw a fender bender in a parking lot yesterday. The kind that happens thousands of times a day all over the world: Two drivers backing out, looking at the sides to make sure there were no pedestrians in the way. And crunch.
In this case, the women pulled out their cell phones. They looked like modern gunslingers and as I was leaving the shopping center a police car was heading their way. Many don't know this, but when you have a minor accident with no injuries in a parking lot, both drivers are considered equally at fault. At least, this is true in my home state of Pennsylvania.
One day this won't happen because cars will have safety features to prevent it. Sensors in the back and front will hit the brakes. Many new cars have this feature already, of course, and cameras in the back give good views of dangers. (Everyone around my age, sixty-one, loves those cameras because it relieves their stiffening necks of motions best done by owls.)
