A German artist capitalized on the crowdsourcing method of reporting traffic jams for Google Maps by creating a fake traffic jam using 99 smartphones in a wagon.
In this Aug. 8, 2018, file photo a mobile phone displays a user's travels using Google Maps in New York. TORONTO -- A German artist used smartphones in a wagon to fool Google Maps into thinking there were traffic jams on empty streets in a new performance installation.
In theory, motorists using Google Maps would then be navigated away from Weckert and his wagon with suggested alternate routes to their destinations.,” discussing his methods and reasoning. Weckert claims that Google Maps “makes virtual changes to the real city” citing companies like Uber, Airbnb, Tinder and Deliveroo that function via various interfaces with Google and its Maps function, which in turn create “new forms of digital capitalism and commodification.”
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