Reply to: Man creates fake traffic jam on Google Maps by carting around 99 cellphones

[Whorty]

Maybe their algorithms, machine learning algorithms perhaps, only rarely see 99 people all in the same square foot - so they don't see it as artificial and a candidate for rejection?

Ah, the old "black swan" .....

[original PM]

Does show how big brother Google is watching everything and too deeply involved in our lives.

It's a bit late to be worrying about that.

How many people have 'invited' Alexa, Siri, Cortana etc to sit in their house and listen to their conversations?

All so they can have some music without all the hassle of standing up and turning the radio on.

You reap what you sow.

[technobabble]

Big brother

Does show how big brother Google is watching everything and too deeply involved in our lives.

[Mordac]

You'd never guess you lot worked in IT.

Possibly your most insightful post ever. None of us understand art though (but we know what we like)...

[scooterscot]

You'd never guess you lot worked in IT.

[Mordac]

He walked in the middle of the road on the pics.

Yes, admittedly, an idiot walking around in the middle of the road would cause traffic issues, but that's just because they all have to slow down to his pace so as not to hit him*. It doesn't explain why Google maps was fooled into thinking there was massive congestion when there wasn't, since there were no cars in the pics.

*I would've tried to hit him, and claimed it was a performance art installation called "The Consequence of Stupidity".

[GJABS]

or else they'd also be able to tell that all 99 objects are all occupying pretty much the same square foot of space.

Maybe their algorithms, machine learning algorithms perhaps, only rarely see 99 people all in the same square foot - so they don't see it as artificial and a candidate for rejection?

[ladymuck]

Have I missed something? Why did Google assume it was 99 cars moving at a snails pace, rather than 99 pedestrians moving at normal walking pace? Or did he actually do something a bit naughty and we're not allowed to know what it is?

I wondered this, their GPS isn't so accurate that they can tell the phones are in the middle of the road rather than their pavement or else they'd also be able to tell that all 99 objects are all occupying pretty much the same square foot of space.

Maybe all those traffic jams I see on the map are caused by people shuffling along!

[Eirikur]

Have I missed something? Why did Google assume it was 99 cars moving at a snails pace, rather than 99 pedestrians moving at normal walking pace? Or did he actually do something a bit naughty and we're not allowed to know what it is?

He walked in the middle of the road on the pics.

[Mordac]

Have I missed something? Why did Google assume it was 99 cars moving at a snails pace, rather than 99 pedestrians moving at normal walking pace? Or did he actually do something a bit naughty and we're not allowed to know what it is?

[NotAllThere]

I've rarely found re-routes improve anything, so I'd definitely benefit from this.

[GJABS]

Ok funny, but what did he achieve

A bit of peace and quiet in his neighbourhood. Good for property prices, that

[PhiltheGreek]

He’s an artist. Art is what he achieved

Art? I thought it was a prank. What a tosser. Royal approval is revoked.

[NickFitz]

Ok funny, but what did he achieve, cars getting stuck in traffic because they were rerouted and creates congestion on other routes? And who has 99 smartphones just to do a prank?

He’s an artist. Art is what he achieved

[Hobosapien]

At least Extinction Rebellion have found ways of disrupting the traffic while most of them sit at home happy clapping.