traffic and mind reading devices

i went home early (early for me is 7pm) last tuesday.
big mistake.
i forgot to look at the traffic situation and i hoped for the best.
always a bad combination.
after 30 minutes of traffic and i was not even halfway the distance to my destination i declared that traffic was now bordering on idiocy.
granted i work far from home( i work in alabang and live in quezon city : around 40 min with the normal traffic, 1 hr 30 for heavy traffic and maybe 35 min if you drive real fast and there's absolutely no traffic ) it still didn't make sense.
there was a research claiming that one of the major causes of traffic ( other than accidents and major disasters ) are cars that just slow down. yes it is true. i tried to search for it but i can't find it. They observed the national highways in the United States and they even had simulations.
and you can actually prove this by observation. on my way to work, im lucky enough not to experience traffic in the expressway (if you're really early, you'll know what i mean). the traffic is always in the opposite lane, so on my way here i noticed that from magallanes to bicutan ( the first exit going south from magallanes ) the opposite lane was clear. just after bicutan, traffic is so bad the cars are slowly making their way to bicutan. the reason? the cars in front wee driving slow. that's it. no accidents, no disabled vehicles, not even a bottleneck.

so i learned from my mistake and started to look at the traffic situation before i go.
i am then faced with a new challenge... distinguishing between pile up, build up or tightening up. Deciding whether a slow drive is better than slow moving or if 'crawling' means you shouldn't go now.
they should try to make it into more practical descriptions like :

car speed average 30 kph
or
you could run faster than the cars
or
walking to your destination will get you there faster
or
if you have a bad heart and high blood pressure : DON'T DRIVE.

the problem with developing stories in mind while driving is you can't write it down. when i finally do get a notebook, it seems different.

i need a mind reading machine.
:) a quick google showed me that researches have started to use these machines to help the disabled and as security measures.
which doesn't help me yet. i need a program that translates the words in my mind to paper. dream machines are also good. i've written so many novels in my mind i probably have my own shelf in lucien's library. (for those who don't know lucien, or the library of unwritten books look for Sandman by Neil Gaiman for DC Vertigo)

in the meantime, i'm stuck with my notebook.