Thanks, Dirkus....
There are ALWAYS cars on our freeways these days, even at midnight, 2am, etc. Some people start work at 5am, 6am, 7am ... so traffic starts picking up again by 4:30am.
What I mean by "died down" is that it is not bumper to bumper traffic. There will still be a lot of cars on the freeway -- that's just LA traffic today.