Simon Weckert: He is the man who created the fake traffic jam on Google Maps

Ο Simon Weckert after an observation he made decided to do an interesting experiment with 99 smartphones to confuse the Google Maps.

Η function of its 'circulation' Google utilizes the geographical location of smartphones to understand if there is traffic on the road where we are. If many smartphones are in the same spot for a while, Google's special algorithms believe that this spot has enough traffic and thus 'paint' the area red as a warning to others who intend to cross the same spot.

This data is of course anonymous and we need to have our provider data open, as well as GPS in order for the feature to work more efficiently.

But Simon Weckert wanted to try if he could fool Google's system by putting as many smartphones as possible in a cart and going on an empty street in his hometown in Germany, near Google's offices in Berlin. where a few minutes later he saw that the point had turned from green to orange - and a few seconds later red, just from the points he was passing through.

As he stated, the idea came when once while walking he saw a similar result only that the data came from passers-by and not cars and so three years after the incident he decided to try it himself.

The experiment was successful and at the same time Google, which became aware of the process, came out and responded by saying that "is an interesting use of our technology, whether by car or camel and is a way to improve it even more."

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