intelligent road debris

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.