Wisconsin Department of Transportation Data Glitch Reveals Cars Driving Through Closed Bridges in Digital Twin Simulation
State transportation officials are baffled after a routine system audit uncovered a bizarre error in the Department of Transportation's traffic modeling software—vehicles in the digital simulation are repeatedly driving straight through bridges marked as 'closed for repair.' The glitch, which appeared in a Wisconsin DOT map layer used for infrastructure planning, shows dozens of ghost cars merging onto nonexistent lanes over the Milwaukee River. "It's like the system is remembering a road that was removed last decade," said a data technician. "We're seeing the exact same vehicle IDs every time, with no driver input." The anomaly has gone viral online, with conspiracy theorists claiming it's a residual data shadow.