Would have been a bit more useful to show the traffic before the blackout for frame of reference, this just looks like an unchanging level of activity.
I agree. I suspect the creator didn't start this project until that morning, though, so there's no way he/she could have gotten that data. Notice that the video doesn't begin at midnight, but rather 8 A.M.
looks kind of like the final visualization in the last frame made blurry and added a bit of movement