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Google Maps Thinks Guy Pulling Red Wagon Filled With Phones is a Major Traffic Jam

From The Category5.TV Newsroom Episode 642
February 12, 2020

Artist Simon Weckert borrowed phones from friends and rental companies until he had acquired 99 devices, which he piled into a little red wagon. He then walked up and down a given street, mostly at random, towing his smartphone-packed wagon behind him. Inevitably, Weckert says his wagon created a long red line in the app, indicating that traffic had slowed to a crawl—even though there wasn't any traffic at all. He had effectively tricked the system into thinking a series of large buses were crawling back and forth.

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