![]() ![]() After the success of that first one, more robots were stationed at other Kinshasa intersections. Because of that first traffic robot, within two years, Kinshasa was able to join the modern world and compete in the global market. The city of Kinshasa was plagued by traffic so severe that its very economy was affected. It really was like something out of a classic sci-fi flick with its swiveling waist, long dexterous robot arms, and large round eyes that housed the six cameras located behind them. Standing at 8 feet tall, its bright silver robot body cemented in a concrete platform and shining in the sun, the solar-powered traffic robot was anything but rusty. “But we all felt like we were part of the future standing there, sweating in the pounding sunshine and staring at it.” “The thing looked crazy,” my father said. He joined it and learned that everyone was there for the unveiling of the very first robotic traffic cop. ![]() My father was there on a business meeting when he saw the crowd. I even know the intersection, and I’ve never even set foot in the Congo: Triomphal Boulevard, at the intersection of Patrice Lumumba, Asosa, and Huileries street. Ever since I can remember my father’s been bragging about being in Kinshasa when the first one was installed in Twenty-13. Rusties have been around for, like, thirty years. ![]() Ok, sawa, maybe I did more than just see. Dammit, we should have really seen it coming. Me in the bush I don’t even like camping. ![]()
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