About 20 years ago I almost killed my whole family. We were driving the four-lane back home from a vacation in fairly heavy traffic on a Saturday morning. Behind our station wagon I was towing a small boat, filled with suitcases and other gear we couldn’t fit into the car.
It all happened in an instant. I diverted my eyes from the road to check the traffic in the rear-view and see how the boat was tracking. It couldn’t have been more than two or three seconds. When I looked ahead again, the brake lights of the car in front were
