With SimCity 4, the traffic you saw was just a visual representation of the game simulating the proportional amount of traffic that was viable to the situation, you would notice this often with cars fading out of existance. However with SimCity and Cities: Skylines, each car is holding citizens that have actual destinations, so unfortunately I don't think realistic traffic has been created in a game yet
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With SimCity 4, the traffic you saw was just a visual representation of the game simulating the proportional amount of traffic that was viable to the situation, you would notice this often with cars fading out of existance. However with SimCity and Cities: Skylines, each car is holding citizens that have actual destinations, so unfortunately I don't think realistic traffic has been created in a game yet
Despite cards just being automata, lanes function as they should as you could know when using U-Drive-It. Also, sims did have an actual destination in SimCity4 as well. What the automata did was just represent how much the volume of traffic was. In Skylines, citizens don't even use the road as it is meant to, completely forgoing logic in terms of how to get to their destination. I've only played Skylines for ~2 months but I doubt that has changed.