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Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin
"A German artist has had a bit of fun with Google Maps after tricking its free satnav service into displaying traffic jams – by walking around with a hand cart full of mobile phones."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/03/google_maps_hack_cartful_phones/
As we all know, high powered computing systems are foolproof and incapable of error…
I shared this to @chrisfl on Twitter - so if you see him out and about with a barrow full of phones you'll know why.
Someone also said something - I THINK on Twitter - about possibilities to replicate but with just a load of organised people & their phones. I'm thinking like a Google-maps hacking flash-mob.
Pop up PoP plan (if we knew it would work?)
The stunt amused me for its cleverness, making you think about how systems work, and for its "hack" value, but I don't think it would be a good idea to try to emulate it as part of PoP; it would just annoy people, which is surely not the message we are trying to put out?
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