Google Maps may be a very useful and excellent navigation and transportation tool, but that doesn't mean it won't be fooled.
Berlin-based artist Simon Weckert tricked the acclaimed app into believing that a completely empty street was full of traffic. What he did was a genius. He put 99 smartphones in his cart and opened map navigation on all of them. He slowly dragged the map to the streets of Berlin. Ironically, it also included a street directly in front of Google's Berlin office. Soon the roads on Google Maps turned red due to traffic.
You may be wondering why this is happening exactly. As you can imagine, Google uses methods to collect traffic data from all over the world. Smartphones used by people in cars provide Google with the information they need. B. Travel speed and the number of smartphones on that particular street. In the case of Weckart, when 99 cars lined up in a small street, the street turned red almost instantly.
Certainly, when we used Google Maps, people were told that the roads were crowded and that the roads should be avoided altogether. If they used the road anyway, their almost empty appearance must have surprised them.
Weckart never disclosed any facts other than his blog post. There is no further detail, so everything could be fake. If it's really genuine, it can easily be abused, so Google probably needs to investigate this. However, there are usually no artists running around with 99 smartphones in a wheelbarrow. Don't put off using Google Maps, and more importantly, don't let a guy with a red wagon tell you what to do and let him choose his own route.
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