Most of us respond to traffic jams the way a reasonable person would: with existential dread, a playlist of songs we’ve heard 400 times, or a heated internal monologue about the structural failings of American infrastructure. One trucker, however, had an entirely different plan.
Reddit user ZanaZamora went viral earlier this month after posting a video showing what they did when an accident forced a road closure on their route. While other drivers were flipping U-turns across a median, Zamora calmly slid into the passenger seat, fired up a $6,000 gaming PC rig, and started driving fast in a completely different and entirely virtual sense.
“Been waiting to get stuck in traffic ever since installing this rig just to make this video,” Zamora wrote in the post. When officials announced that drivers could turn around and leave, Zamora’s response was essentially: give me a minute, I have laps to run.
The game in question was Assetto Corsa Competizione, a precision racing simulator beloved by people who think Gran Turismo is too casual. Not a truck simulator. A racing game. In a truck. The irony is almost poetic.
This Is Not Your Average In-Cab Entertainment Setup
Stand still traffic? Time to switch to the other seat~
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This rig is not a laptop balanced on a lunchbox. ZanaZamora’s setup includes a Simagic Alpha Evo Pro wheelbase, a Conspit GT300 wheel, a SIMMSON pedal set, a Moza AB9/MH16 flight stick, a Winwing Orion 2 throttle, a PXN button box, and a monitor mounted on an adjustable arm. The seat even has bass shakers built in, because apparently vibration feedback is not something the actual truck provides enough of.
The PC powering all of this runs an Intel Core i9-14900 paired with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, which is the kind of hardware most desktop gaming setups would be proud to have, let alone something tucked inside a commercial vehicle.
To put this in perspective: the average person stuck in traffic is watching a YouTube video at 480p because their signal dropped. This man is running a high-fidelity racing simulation with force feedback and rumble seats.
There is a very real argument that Zamora has solved traffic. Not the traffic itself, obviously. But the experience of sitting in it.
Said one Redditor: “I’ve been on this sub for a long long time but this has got to be the most unhinged rig I’ve ever seen. Well done.”