I know this now, along with a lot of other technical arcana — like the importance of C.O.R. (coefficient of restitution) and backweighting — thanks to Ed Jacobs, a salesman at my local Golfsmith shop, which I visited in hopes of moving, driver-wise, into the 21st century.
What moved them to honk then, though, was not what moves drivers to honk now.
And last week, it announced a partnership with AT&T that would move drivers onto the mobile provider's cell network, while also getting the Uber app pre-loaded on AT&T Android phones.
"We're moving from drivers having a lot of work to do, to less work to do, to basically nothing to do," he said.
The presence of a continuity line used in the diverge portion of two of the treatments was successful in moving more drivers to the left (slow) lane.
The next hours were spent with me in a terrible state of jitteriness while we went into town, walking (to my further anxiety) on the side of a road with fast moving French drivers whizzing by.
During both moves, drivers on La Cienega might have witnessed the spectacle of a parade of Lawry's employees rolling their carts across the street, aided by traffic police.
If the wheels are not moving, that driver is as good as broke.
Amused at my interest in his taxi — and relieved that traffic was finally moving — my driver graciously pulled over and popped the hood.
The light turned green, red, then green again, yet he couldn't move until drivers behind him began to sound their horns.
