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

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    #11
    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
    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!

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      #12
      Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
      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?

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        #13
        Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
        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".
        His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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          #14
          You'd never guess you lot worked in IT.
          "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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            #15
            Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
            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)...
            His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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              #16
              Big brother

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

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                #17
                Originally posted by technobabble View Post
                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.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by GJABS View Post
                  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" .....
                  I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man

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