Spontaneous order on the road (what happened when traffic lights were off)

The Vietname video reminded me of chapter 2 of Ikaruga, my favorite video game stage and not a good model for urban traffic planners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-zSi0xt9fY

Aren't you assuming it wouldn't be even worse with traffic controls? Developing countries deal with the rapid increase of car ownership leading to road capacity issues pretty quickly.