Metropolis II (2011) is a kinetic sculpture by Chris Burden at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

[1][2] The cars travel along 18 Teflon-coated[3] tracks, including a six-lane freeway, at scale speeds ranging from bumper-to-bumper to 240 miles per hour.

[2][4][5][6] Burden viewed the contrast between its noisy operation and quiet downtime as mirroring the cyclical nature of life in a bustling city.

The work, he said, anticipates the era of driverless cars that Burden believed would put an end to traffic gridlock.

[1][12][10] The sculpture was built by a team of eight people who began work in 2006 in Burden's Topanga Canyon studio, unveiling it there in 2011.