Leadership on the 405 Freeway

Monday morning on the 405 North, a highway patrol car began flashing its siren lights about a quarter of a mile ahead of me.  At first, vehicles directly in front of the patrol car began to bear right—some drivers likely checking their speedometers with some anxiety. But no one was pulled over. Instead a gap started to emerge in the immediate vicinity of the squad car, whereupon the squad car began to sail from the Left Shoulder to the Right Shoulder and back again. After a mile of this bizarreness, I realized that the space ahead of the patrol car had grown to several hundred yards and the speed of traffic directly behind the squad car was gradually slowing…63…62...61...60…59mph…

As I took the next off-ramp, I shook my head in amazement: ‘A single patrol car can halt an entire freeway.’

Online, I came across the following thread:  “A cop will swerve across all lanes back and forth, slowly bringing the speed down until everyone is going about 30. The further back they slow traffic, the longer they have to clear the obstruction. This is usually done without actually stopping traffic.”

I recall something the Stipler Rebbe once said, “A leader must see a thousand miles in every direction.”

With enough foresight anything is possible.