{"id":6202,"date":"2020-02-05T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:51:13","slug":"how-a-guy-create-traffic-jams-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dazzlepop.net\/site\/how-a-guy-create-traffic-jams-on-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"How a guy create traffic jams on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How a guy create traffic jams on Google Maps <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since the app\u2019s launch in 2008, Google Maps<\/a> has gradually become the go-to navigation tool<\/a> for millions of people around the world. Whatever your mode of transport, a couple of taps in Maps and you\u2019ll be shown the best way to reach your desired destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For drivers, the app pulls data from other Maps users on the road at any one time, enabling its algorithms to offer the quickest or most convenient route according to current conditions. You know the app is doing its job when some of the roads on the map turn red, indicating a traffic snarl. When this happens, the app\u2019s algorithms spring into action and will, if it can, offer a better route that takes you around the road congestion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The technology that powers Google Maps recently caught the attention of artist Simon Weckert. With a deep interest in the digital world, Weckert decided he wanted to find out if 99 smartphones wheeled along in a small cart would create a virtual traffic jam in Google Maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking the streets of Berlin with a cart full of borrowed and rented phones all running Google Maps, Weckert\u2019s video of the stunt (below) appears to show all of the streets in which he walked turning red on Maps. That\u2019s right \u2014 he apparently fooled Maps into thinking there was a traffic jam when there wasn\u2019t. And as a result, Google Maps rerouted drivers in the area to other streets to avoid the jam (yes, the one that didn\u2019t exist). Of course, Weckert couldn\u2019t resist passing by Google\u2019s Berlin office, too, creating gridlock (on Maps, at least) with his cart full of smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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