Cannon plugs and a Dishwalla nod: Chris Boden's Traffic Radar wakes up seventeen days in
The short about the boxes that watch intersections now runs about twelve times its usual daily pace, while the GrrCON booth video beside it nears 1.8 million views.
Chris BodenStory of Why this story? The video is running at 38,452 views a day, 12 times its usual pace (3,140).
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Traffic Radar woke up. Chris Boden posted the short on September 15, and for two weeks it ticked along quietly. Now it is drawing close to 40,000 views a day, about twelve times its own normal pace, and it has passed 350,000 in total.
The subject is a piece of street furniture most drivers never look at twice: the radar units that sit above intersections and tell the signal who is waiting. Boden, whose channel describes itself as something like a fact show hosted by Deadpool, gives it the usual treatment. There is an old circuit board up front, some radio-frequency physics, and a joke about "cruel and unusual calculus" that commenters keep repeating. A line about counting cars like Dishwalla has sent a few viewers straight back to the nineties.
The comment section has turned into a field guide. Several people say they were surprised to see cannon plugs, the round locking connectors best known from military aircraft, on a roadside box. Others compare radar with induction loops and cameras. One says the only unit near them watches for trucks skipping a weigh station, and a civil engineer explains what the units can see in a single lane. Almost all of that talk dates from the first days. The new viewers are watching, not writing.
It is not the only thing moving on the channel. The Second Chance Silicon Booth video from GrrCON, Boden's stop at the Grand Rapids security conference, is now close to 1.8 million views. Between them, the two have pushed his daily views well above their normal level.
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What viewers say
"Cruel and unusual calculus" killed me 🤣
@spikereynolds8615See it on YouTubeSurprised to see cannon plugs outside of the military aviation world, that's pretty cool by itself
@EliteMadHornetSee it on YouTube"countin cars like Dishwalla"... man it's been a minute on that one.
@jasonstclair6293See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Chris Boden
- Subscribers
- 1,770,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,354,346 (on a normal day: 934,414)
- Video published
- September 15, 2026
- Video views so far
- 356,045 (17 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 38,452 (on a normal day: 6,671)
The numbers
Seventeen days after it went up, the short is drawing far more viewers each day than it ever did at the start.
💡 Test your knowledge
Boden's line about counting cars nods to a 1996 hit. Which band recorded "Counting Blue Cars"?
"Counting Blue Cars" was Dishwalla's breakthrough single, released in 1996.
