Los Angeles engineers spent over four hundred million dollars to fully synchronize every single one of the four thousand five hundred traffic signals across the city in a desperate bid to alleviate infamous gridlock.

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Los Angeles engineers spent over four hundred million dollars to fully synchronize every single one of the four thousand five hundred traffic signals across the city in a desperate bid to alleviate infamous gridlock. Using a centralized computer network equipped with thousands of magnetic road sensors and traffic cameras, the system actively adjusts signal timing to keep massive waves of vehicles flowing as smoothly as possible. Despite this monumental achievement in municipal cybernetics, the average commute through the city still feels like a static parking lot populated entirely by aspiring actors crying behind the wheels of their leased convertibles. All the cutting-edge predictive algorithms in the world cannot truly fix the fundamental geographic failure of forcing millions of deeply impatient humans to simultaneously drive massive steel boxes to the exact same location every single morning