If you have 99 cell phones left over and you don't know what to do, you can vary the traffic routes of hundreds of people at will. That we are watched practically every moment and at the pleasure of companies like Google and Apple is an absolute reality from which we are hardly going to be able to escape given our fondness (and addiction) to be connected practically every moment. This man named Simon Weckert has thought of putting 99 mobile phones in a wheelbarrow and strolling through the streets of Berlin causing "traffic jams" at will in streets that were practically empty, are we facing the best troll of 2020?
The artist has decided to celebrate 15 years of Google Maps (which was released in 2005) making this peculiar invention that has become viral. I recommend that you watch the video in which we appreciate how it is capable of generating more than two minutes of traffic jam in streets where absolutely no one is passing, and is that at the moment the video reaches almost one million visits on the YouTube platform. Simon's slow progress causes Google's productive traffic to falter, going from a splendid green to the most saturated of reds in just a few minutes.
This is the first time it happens, Already in 2014 some Israeli students wanting to have fun tricked Waze, another quite popular GPS application (and also owned by Google) creating false users by thousands that in theory went to the same place, generating a "fake" traffic jam. This serves to make it clear to us how this that seems miraculous technology would be absolutely nothing if it weren't for the absolute disregard we do to our privacy, but hey, scabies with pleasure does not itch, as they say. In short, a round of applause for Simon and how he opens our eyes with these ideas.
Open our eyes? The reality is that google maps has changed the way we get to the sites, being much more efficient, without getting lost, knowing the time we will invest, the possible routes, etc etc etc ... with which this experiment, of which the result before doing so, because if you have 99 phones with google maps standing on a street, it is more likely to be a traffic jam than an artist with a wheelbarrow and them inside, than to get 99 phones with internet access, it is not fast or cheap …. Even so, he neither hacked nor knocked down the system, simply maps indicates another alternative route to avoid the uncle with the truck. he he