Mother fucker tired of thru traffic on his street. Not gonna just bitch and moan, man of action right there
This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.
Is that a Yogi Berra quote variation? I love it, my dad would always say that
The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist’s original post doesn’t mention anything else.
Cartographer
Is this illegal at all or is there a follow up? I don’t care personally, I think it’s pretty funny, but feds typically don’t like this type of thing. Curious what Google responded with
I highly doubt tlas give a shit about someone fucking with google maps’ congestion overlay
It would be more effective just to have multiple android vms with mock location running and have them each be connected to a free vpn
I feel like a backpack might achieve the same thing
I assume Google detects if you’re walking with your phone, so that walking people don’t mess up the traffic jam feature. And that dolley tricks these phones into thinking they’re in a car.
