2. They Remind You of Your Master Plan Amid life's petty stuff -- traffic jams, checkout lines, dusting -- daydreaming may help remind you of larger goals, found a study at the University of British Columbia.
I don't blame American viewers and readers for not wanting to hear this horrible stuff about trafficking 24/7, even though there is plenty of trafficking news to fill that time -- I don't like to hear about it either and I don't like to see it.
Perhaps it's because, as the city is already stuffed with traffic, the idea of picking up fellow travellers, slightly out of your way, who may be dropped off before you, is not appealing to the large mass of people who want to go from A to B as quickly as possible.
The wall bordering the road is topped with a jaunty parade of rusting corn-oil tubs stuffed with traffic-light chilli peppers and pink trumpets of hibiscus.
The campaign consists of fairly basic stuff – walk facing traffic and look left, right and left again before crossing.
And (here's the important bit) there will undoubtedly be other kinds of traffic, stuff we can't possibly have dreamed of yet, running on the internet in 10 years' time.
Although he has done this multistranded narrative stuff before in Traffic, Soderbergh borrows from fast-talking TV shows such as ER and CSI to explain "the science part" – and it is most effective.
Aside from the traffic stuff, you get Bluetooth pairing for use with your cell phone, built-in maps of the US and Canada, text-to-speech directions, 4.3-inch touchscreen, four hours of battery life, and photo viewer.
Lyft is also going to start dropping the single-lowest rating for every driver, exclude low ratings for the stuff like heavy traffic outside their control, and default to a five-star rating if riders don't rate their drivers.
If my mom can get locked up for traffic stuff, I don't stand a chance.
