--- title: Video Of The Planet’s Most Terrifying Traffic Crossroads description: This is most dangerous traffic intersection in the world. Thank your lucky stars it’s not a real one. canonical: https://time.com/3408691/video-of-the-planets-most-terrifying-and-fictional-traffic-crossroads/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-20T15:13:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:43.139Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Video Of The Planet’s Most Terrifying Traffic Crossroads og:description: This is most dangerous traffic intersection in the world. 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With cars whizzing in all directions in endless streams and pedestrians carelessly braving the crossings by threading their way between speeding vehicles, just looking at this video has raised our heartbeat. Thankfully this intersection doesn’t actually it exist, it’s the work of genius film-maker and editor Fernando Livschitz. By threading together different clips of the same crossroads in Argentina, Livschitz has masterfully created Rush Hour: a video of the planet’s most terrifying (and most fictional) traffic phenomenon. 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