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https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q He put 99 smart phones in a wagon with all of them running Google maps in drive mode. Google interpre
by mabbo 3y ago
https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q
He put 99 smart phones in a wagon with all of them running Google maps in drive mode. Google interpreted this as a traffic jam, and made other cars avoid the area.
- jacquesm 3y agoOh that's totally priceless. I definitely have some use for this :) Invisible-Roadblocks-as-a-Service courtesy of Google.
- swader999 3y agoThere's a unicorn in there somehow.
- reaperducer 3y agoThere's a unicorn in there somehow. Absolutely. Rich enclaves paying you to drive a bucket of cell phones around the neighborhood slowly in an electric golf cart. Or simpler: The rich enclaves pay you to supply their existing private security cars/carts with buckets of charged phones to drive slowly around their existing routes.
- mabbo 3y agoI feel like there's a great movie plot point you could write where the bank robbers use this trick to clear traffic out of their way during the escape.
- throwthat1 3y agoI wonder what percentage of cars use google maps to navigate at any one point though
- dang 3y agoDiscussed at the time: Google Maps Hacks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821 - Feb 2020 (382 comments)