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Some quick googling suggests that while people often start putting fake accidents on Waze, it also tries to detect people who are faking it and starts ignoring
by egypturnash 9y ago
Some quick googling suggests that while people often start putting fake accidents on Waze, it also tries to detect people who are faking it and starts ignoring you.
I guess the next step is to build a tool that repeatedly creates fake Waze accounts and uses them to report fake accidents in the residential streets that Waze is turning into major commuting roads.
Or maybe the next step is to abandon the whole "people live three towns over from their day job and drive for a half hour" thing. It's pretty horrible and increases misery for a ton of people. Sadly, America's been building suburbs for like sixty years now, changing this is gonna take a lot of time.
- newfoundglory 9y agoStart with this work - http://www.wired.co.uk/article/waze-hacked-fake-traffic-jam http://www.wired.co.uk/article/waze-hacked-fake-traffic-jam
- zdragnar 9y agoWhat, so people should only get jobs in the town they live in? That sounds more Draconian then China's hukou system
- sli 9y agoI don't believe OP was implying that at all. Seems more like OP is opining on the rather large barrier some people have to living where they work vs. being forced to commute. Some folks end up in a situation where they can't afford to move (or, probably more commonly, live) closer to their job, but can't find a well-paying enough job in their own town to survive their either. If you're commuting and can't afford to live in the city to which you commute, you're being paid below market rate. Probably well below. It's very easy for companies to exploit that to their benefit, and much to the detriment of their employees.