Intelligent Road Debris

How does road debris collect conveniently away from the middle of the traffic lanes? Is it by design or did it evolve that way?!

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4/16/20091 min read

a car driving down a road
a car driving down a road

Have you noticed that most of the time, debris fallen on a busy freeway is nicely positioned away from the middle of lanes and more or less on the dividing line/buttons? (This is true unless it's a big object or if it has fallen off very recently.)

This is convenient, because, traffic doesn't have to swerve to avoid them. But from a pure probability stand-point, it's impossible that a majority of objects that fall off vehicles going at high speeds land at such a convenient place. Perhaps the debris are intelligent. or, there is a benevolent force guiding this.

If you didn't get my drift, this sounds like the 'intelligent design' argument.

Anyway, I think that the reason for this phenomenon is simply this: the object initially will land most likely in the middle of a lane. Then a vehicle will hit it and it will be moved. Then another vehicle will hit it, and so on. This will continue until the object accidentally comes to rest at a harmless location.

We could say the object's position evolved to perfection.