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I wonder how it affected traffic (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Berlin artist Simon Weckert used 99 phones and a handcart to create a "virtual traffic jam" on Google Maps

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 5 months ago (15 children)

There's some security researchers that have done this before as well, and some "grey hats" that reportedly used this technique to get Google to route traffic away from them during their commute by spinning up a whole bunch of phones in their car like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's clever. Just have a bunch of hidden buckets of phones on battery banks on your preferred route.

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