Mother fucker tired of thru traffic on his street. Not gonna just bitch and moan, man of action right there
This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.
The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist’s original post doesn’t mention anything else.
“Nobody drives down that street anymore, it’s too crowded.”
Nobody drives anymore. There’s too much traffic
Actual thing New Yorkers say 😄
Is that a Yogi Berra quote variation? I love it, my dad would always say that
I couldn’t tell you who said the original, I was riffing on a version I read in a joke book where it was a restaurant instead of a road. “Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore…”
No, as far as we know, it was just an (art) experiment of sorts
It would be more effective just to have multiple android vms with mock location running and have them each be connected to a free vpn
Yeah but those people don’t appear in news articles.
Gotta keep your commute time down by gaming maps it’d the only way lol
Probably the funniest thing a german ever did and you can’t ruin this for us
I love how the title says around 99. When it’s not accurate, they could have written around 100 lol.
It’s “wheeled around”, not “around 99”.
Oh I see I don’t know how to read. But what psychopath buys 99 phones to wheel them around and doesn’t buy the 100th one?
Someone with reverse OCD?
I love the idea of Reverse OCD, thank you stranger.
he used the 100th one to take the picture
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It’s not really unclear. One does not “wheel” a phone, and “around 99” makes no sense with such a precise value. And it’s not even funny misinterpreted so awkwardly.
99 neuf balloons…
Cartographer
Cartofucker
The digital Pied Piper of Berlin
Kinda the opposite, really. This guy is literally causing the pests (rats, not children) of the modern city to avoid him, not be attracted to him and follow him out of town to The Children’s Crusade.
I feel like a backpack might achieve the same thing
It was an art piece so he wanted it to be more visible
I assume Google detects if you’re walking with your phone, so that walking people don’t mess up the traffic jam feature. And that dolley tricks these phones into thinking they’re in a car.
I was under the impression that Google made that calculation based on average speed. But there may be something to that. Maybe it’s both.
I’d rather lug 30-40 lbs. of equipment around in a little wagon.
You say that like there’s something wrong with a wagon.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the wagon!
I’ll take a wild guess that he maybe wanted to build distance between himself and the phones, especially if he does this repeatedly. For a few phones, radiation and tissue heating is not an important consideration but for 100 phones it might be.
we will wait for your assertion to prove itself, then, together.
What a hero
Is this illegal at all or is there a follow up? I don’t care personally, I think it’s pretty funny, but feds typically don’t like this type of thing. Curious what Google responded with
I highly doubt tlas give a shit about someone fucking with google maps’ congestion overlay
You underestimate what the FCC will run with
I mean, if he pays for legal services or uses Hotspot within the TOS of his carrier, FCC ain’t gonna care about this. So long as the devices weren’t modified in a way that violates Part 15 rules they ain’t gonna give a shit.
