[Google] - Man tricks Google Maps into reporting false traffic jam on empty road by moving slowly with 99 smartphones

[UltimaOnline]

Who the fuck has 99 active smartphones?!?

https://sg.yahoo.com/autos/artist-shows-google-maps-control-204000881.html

• Berlin artist Simon Weckert found a way to turn green streets into red on the Google Maps app to discourage app users from going there, thereby sharply reducing traffic on those streets at will.
• Weckert pulled it off using 99 smartphones running the app. This sort of hack has been around since as early as 2014.
• Weckert's stunt was meant to showcase the power that services like Google Maps have over urban areas.

 

[knnb40]

google map is not reliable.
in Singapore I have at least three occasion follow the google map to the retail outlet and they are no longer operating there.