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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No it is not. There copies of cars everywhere. Looks like they just doubled everything horizontally.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Classic you’re being downvoted by those with little internet common sense. The image is doctored and the patterns repeat frequently - you’re right.

    E: feel free to downvote me all you want, that won’t make you any less wrong

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ehm, nope? You know that white and black/dark blue/dark greyish are the most prevalent car colors?

    Look at the trucks and minivans that are a bit more distinct. Their patterns with other white cars around do not repeat.

    Also the one in the picture only has 20 lanes. The US widest has 26 lanes

    https://roadstotravel.net/usa-katy-freeway/

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ehm, nope? You know that white and black/dark blue/dark greyish are the most prevalent car colors?

    You sound insufferable and also you’re wrong.

    https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/405-traffic-altered-image-factcheck

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The claim was that everything was copied horizontally, which is evidently not the case in the picture. Also as i have linked the widest "freeway" in the US has even more lanes.

    Thank you for posting the article. As you can read in the article they prove the fact that the image is altered by pointing out the number of lanes being wrong, not by "suspicious patterns" in the cars.

    The claim that the image was just doubled horizontally simply does not check out. There was more effort put into creating the fake.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In the original there are definitely suspicious repeating and mirrored patterns.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    this is the one that jumped out at me. On closer inspection, it seems like the some of the traffic on the left side is headed away from the camera. And also, some of the shadows, again on the left side seem to be different to the rest. I'd guess that the left hand has been shopped more, with maybe minimal filling of thebright side.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Your media literacy is dogshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/5Bbb8EnScBd7Ffk46

    Go count them for yourself (or just search Katy Freeway into Google maps and turn on satellite view if you don't want to click this link)

    The number of lanes is insane

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh for sure.

    But reality is different than this obviously photoshopped image.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh my apologies, I thought we were talking about the number of lanes.

    Yeah the traffic here looks photoshopped, though, I'd be willing to bet there are times where this freeway almost looks like this*

    *Statement based on vibes, not actual evidence

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