A diagram of how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gridlock" class="extiw" title="en:gridlock">gridlock</a> can occur.  Red cars are those who, if they would have waited to cross until they could clear the intersection, wouldn't have caused the gridlock to have occurred.
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