Using a cart of 99 smartphones, artist Simon Weckert is able to generate virtual traffic jams in Google Maps. Through this, it is possible to turn a otherwise empty, 'green' street into a 'red' one -- which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route.

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image showing Using a cart of 99 smartphones, artist Simon Weckert is able to generate virtual traffic jams in Google Maps. Through this, it is possible to turn a otherwise empty, 'green' street into a 'red' one -- which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route.

cubcubcub81 on February 2nd, 2020 at 19:47 UTC »

I’ve thought about this recently how Apple/Google Map applications have an algorithm for which user’s will be routed into a traffic jam and which will be routed around a traffic jam.

timeintheocean on February 2nd, 2020 at 19:59 UTC »

He’s gotta 99 problems but a traffic jam isn’t one.

DpwnShift on February 2nd, 2020 at 20:33 UTC »

Google's new traffic jam minimum threshold: 100 data sources.