Faux progress odometer

When your vehicle is, for a temporary period of time, of unknown duration, stationary on the road, which it is originally intended to traverse in an extremely short period of time, due to there being reasons beyond your control, due to the prolific number of persons in similiar vehicles, intending to go their diverse ways, being in close geographical proximity and therefore unable to move their said vehicles in the manner in which the vehicle, provided with an internal combustion engine of sufficient power able to accelerate the said vehicle and occupants thereof to insanely high speeds in ridiculously small interval of time, but unable to move other than in small increments of space in long intervals of time, and the occupants and the driver of the said vehicle experiencing extreme unhappiness due to the very slow progress of the said vehicle and occupants over the terrain on which they are for the time confined, this device alleviates their frustration, by rotating, by clandestine means, the numbers on the dial of the instrument which registers the progress of the said vehicle over the road, the odometer, so that the said instrument registers a false amount of progress regarding the distance traversed mainly in order to reassure the occupants of the said almost stationary vehicle that some progress is being made, when in reality it is not.

The resulting inaccuracy is made up when the traffic jam dissolves and the vehicle goes at its normal speed, by the odometer revolving at a reduced rate.

The speedometer always remains accurate.

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The following is an explanation of the above idea, but does not form a part of it:

While using a browser integrated with the operating system sold by a famous software company I saw a black bar at the bottom, showing progress in loading the page, progressing regularly, although the lights on the modem showed that the activity on the line was naught. This idea extends the idea of that faux progress bar to another item of common use.