[mrtranscendence]

Not exactly. The quote about highway collisions referred to a time in the future where there are substantially more satellites in orbit. If it’s true that these maneuvers are increasing exponentially, that could be a genuine problem.

[prepend]

It still won’t be accurate as every 10 meters is extremely common. The amount of junk can increase 100Mx and their analogy will still be stupid and make the author’s physics (or maybe stats) teacher feel like a little bit of a failure.