Seems like someone who is malicious could spin up a bunch of VMs, spoof their gps as slow moving across various streets to simulate traffic jams. Even sophistic

Seems like someone who is malicious could spin up a bunch of VMs, spoof their gps as slow moving across various streets to simulate traffic jams. Even sophisticated spoofing would have hard time detecting this. You could even do the inverse, simulate no traffic but have virtual cars go through streets faster than usual even if there is a traffic jam! Would we have some major impacts in the economy of an area if major highways are simulated at high traffic earlier/later than usual over the course of many days? Could affect local city transportation budgets to build or not build roads/new streets if they base their data solely on analytics coming from Google. Bots have become more and more sophisticated, so niche types of manipulation is harder to detect, and for something like GPS you can't really prompt a RECAPTCHA before routes are used. Cell phone tower data probably doesn't suffer from this risk as much, since you have to pay for cellular data and spoofing data to cell towers is probably more difficult.