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Cairo traffic flows without any visible lane markers

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Welcome to the ultimate test of human reflexes. Drivers in this massive Egyptian metropolis operate in a state of synchronized chaos, treating the physical width of the road merely as a suggestion rather than a strict grid.

Cairo traffic flows without any visible lane markers
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