Mother fucker tired of thru traffic on his street. Not gonna just bitch and moan, man of action right there
This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.
The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist's original post doesn't mention anything else.
I couldn't tell you who said the original, I was riffing on a version I read in a joke book where it was a restaurant instead of a road. "Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore..."
It would be more effective just to have multiple android vms with mock location running and have them each be connected to a free vpn
I love how the title says around 99. When it's not accurate, they could have written around 100 lol.
Oh I see I don't know how to read. But what psychopath buys 99 phones to wheel them around and doesn't buy the 100th one?
It's not really unclear. One does not "wheel" a phone, and "around 99" makes no sense with such a precise value. And it's not even funny misinterpreted so awkwardly.
Kinda the opposite, really. This guy is literally causing the pests (rats, not children) of the modern city to avoid him, not be attracted to him and follow him out of town to The Children's Crusade.
I assume Google detects if you're walking with your phone, so that walking people don't mess up the traffic jam feature. And that dolley tricks these phones into thinking they're in a car.
I was under the impression that Google made that calculation based on average speed. But there may be something to that. Maybe it's both.
I'll take a wild guess that he maybe wanted to build distance between himself and the phones, especially if he does this repeatedly. For a few phones, radiation and tissue heating is not an important consideration but for 100 phones it might be.
Is this illegal at all or is there a follow up? I don't care personally, I think it's pretty funny, but feds typically don't like this type of thing. Curious what Google responded with
I highly doubt tlas give a shit about someone fucking with google maps' congestion overlay