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Berlin artist Simon Weckert used 99 phones and a handcart to create a "virtual traffic jam" on Google Maps
There's some security researchers that have done this before as well, and some "grey hats" that reportedly used this technique to get Google to route traffic away from them during their commute by spinning up a whole bunch of phones in their car like this.
“grey hats”
What's a grey hat?
Chaotic neutral. The best and most fun.
Purple phantoms in Dark Souls 3
Do you recall any of the names? I'd love to read those papers and see how effective it was. Depending on the city and the route, people might have no choice but to go over a bridge like that regardless of traffic reports.
Why not round it off to 100 phones? Why stop at 99? Why are you this way?
Heres the wired article from 2020 (First search result) https://www.wired.com/story/99-phones-fake-google-maps-traffic-jam/