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Has no one reverse engineered the Waze API to add artificial slowdowns in their neighborhood?

shagie 9y ago
Yes, they've tried. Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again. Guess who’s winning? - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/traffic-weary-homeowners-and-waze-are-at-war-again-guess-whos-winning/2016/06/05/c466df46-299d-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/traffic-weary-homeowner... The conclusion to the story: > Soon after, Connor went rogue. He experimented with Waze, confirmed it was sending drivers down his street and began filing his false reports. > “It didn’t do much and within two weeks they stopped showing up on the map all together,” Connor said. “They were on to me.” > The traffic flow began to wane when the road construction ended, Connor said, but remains three or four times higher than before it began. For some drivers, their app-inspired shortcut became a permanent route. HN on the WaPo article from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846722
- stergios 9y ago
  There's an easier way to hack waze if you live on a small residential street. All one has to do is buy a $500 dollar car. Then have it "break down" in the middle of the road, essentially blocking the road. Suddenly your car starts up 10 mins later and moves, but after legit waze users report a problem. Repeat until traffic is reduced. You can coordinate with your neighbors to take turns. Civil disobedience can go a long waze to reduce traffic.... I gotta go!
  - largote 9y ago
    Until you find something else to be up-in-arms about.
- atomical 9y ago
  Can't you use AI to fight AI? Especially if you know the protocol.
  - shagie 9y ago
    Huh what? AI isn’t a magical wave in this direction wand. This is a simple routing algorithm at its core. Consider also the “you’re going up against google in terms of development resources and compute power.” That’s not a fight you will win.
    - atomical 9y ago
      Yeah, one algorithm against another. One wants to make fake traffic and one wants to detect it.
- rootlocus 9y ago
  > Connor and his neighbors put up “No Through Traffic” signs. Is this legal?

Yes, they've tried. Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again. Guess who’s winning? - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/traffic-weary-homeowners-and-waze-are-at-war-again-guess-whos-winning/2016/06/05/c466df46-299d-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/traffic-weary-homeowner... The conclusion to the story: > Soon after, Connor went rogue. He experimented with Waze, confirmed it was sending drivers down his street and began filing his false reports. > “It didn’t do much and within two weeks they stopped showing up on the map all together,” Connor said. “They were on to me.” > The traffic flow began to wane when the road construction ended, Connor said, but remains three or four times higher than before it began. For some drivers, their app-inspired shortcut became a permanent route. HN on the WaPo article from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846722

stergios 9y ago
There's an easier way to hack waze if you live on a small residential street. All one has to do is buy a $500 dollar car. Then have it "break down" in the middle of the road, essentially blocking the road. Suddenly your car starts up 10 mins later and moves, but after legit waze users report a problem. Repeat until traffic is reduced. You can coordinate with your neighbors to take turns. Civil disobedience can go a long waze to reduce traffic.... I gotta go!
- largote 9y ago
  Until you find something else to be up-in-arms about.
atomical 9y ago
Can't you use AI to fight AI? Especially if you know the protocol.
- shagie 9y ago
  Huh what? AI isn’t a magical wave in this direction wand. This is a simple routing algorithm at its core. Consider also the “you’re going up against google in terms of development resources and compute power.” That’s not a fight you will win.
  - atomical 9y ago
    Yeah, one algorithm against another. One wants to make fake traffic and one wants to detect it.
rootlocus 9y ago
> Connor and his neighbors put up “No Through Traffic” signs. Is this legal?