Mother fucker tired of thru traffic on his street. Not gonna just bitch and moan, man of action right there
133This 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.
77The article says that it was just an experiment and the artist's original post doesn't mention anything else.
42No, as far as we know, it was just an (art) experiment of sorts
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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
46Yeah but those people don't appear in news articles.
60Gotta keep your commute time down by gaming maps it'd the only way lol
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Probably the funniest thing a german ever did and you can't ruin this for us
36I love how the title says around 99. When it's not accurate, they could have written around 100 lol.
28Cartographer
24Cartofucker
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The digital Pied Piper of Berlin
23Kinda 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.
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I feel like a backpack might achieve the same thing
18It was an art piece so he wanted it to be more visible
17You say that like there's something wrong with a wagon.
9Don't get me wrong, I love the wagon!
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I'd rather lug 30-40 lbs. of equipment around in a little wagon.
9I 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.
9I was under the impression that Google made that calculation based on average speed. But there may be something to that. Maybe it's both.
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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.
6we will wait for your assertion to prove itself, then, together.
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What a hero
4Is 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
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