Real Life

“Trust is good, control is better.” You’re sure to have heard of this saying, it’s a piece of advice that many of us do trust in and follow – whether in our business lives, our personal relationships or in bringing up our children. Yet hardly anybody knows where this saying comes from.

The alarm siren wails loud and urgent; the radar system reports an enemy rocket – an enemy rocket fast approaching – measurements and sensors and computer data all confirm this. 

Now if you think this sounds like a scene from some war or space action movie, you’d be right. Only it was pure reality and not all that long ago.

Driving through a bank of thick fog is a hazardous enterprise. You can hardly see a thing and have very few points on which you can reliably orient yourself. This means that you have to drive slowly so you can brake in time if some vehicle suddenly emerges and crosses your path or some other obstacle looms up in your line of sight. Driving by sight is the only way you’re going to get out of such thick fog safely.