An artist used a wagon and 99 phones to convince Google Maps that streets in Berlin were full of slow-moving traffic.
into creating traffic jam alerts by pulling 99 phones -- with their location services on -- slowly around the German capital in a handcart.
Walking on roads near the River Spree -- which appear empty in footage he released on YouTube -- Weckert managed to trick Google Maps into thinking the phones were sitting in slow-moving traffic.One of his virtual traffic jams, he said, went past Google Berlin's offices.on his website that his work caused"an impact in the physical world" by re-routing cars who wanted to avoid being stuck in traffic.
Weckert added that his work highlights the"blindness" which arises when people think of data as"objective, unambiguous and interpretation free."
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