When speed disguises itself as progress.One driver worked hard to get to a stoplight. (Rounded Bevel Icons)I distinctly remember my father driving the speed limit down a two-way street in the Bronx when a car swung out from behind us and cut into our lane with a few feet to spare. It wasn’t the first time, and whenever it happened, I’d anticipate his favorite phrase, delivered with zero road rage, “Going nowhere fast.”Twenty seconds later, we rolled up to a red light, with the car that cut us off sitting right next to us. One question that stayed with me as a curious 12-year-old: “Did they notice?” Did the driver notice that, after all that effort to get ahead, their reward was a red light? Did speed feel like progress to them?Speed that feels like progressDrivers act on the information they have and make quick decisions. Empty lane. I can go around and make the next light. The...