The artist created traffic jams on Google Maps, carrying a cart with 99 smartphones in the streets

German artist Simon Weckert conducted an experiment to show how conditional the results of modern services such as Google Maps can be. He published the description of the experiment on the blog and on YouTube, writes Ain.Ua.

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The goal was to create a traffic jam on Google Maps. For this, the artist used a trolley loaded with 99 used smartphones.

“In this way, you can turn a green street into a red one, which affects the real world: cars choose a different route so as not to get stuck in traffic,” he writes.

Simon emphasizes that virtual services like Google Maps are changing the life of cities in reality. “Google Maps has fundamentally changed our understanding of what a map is and how we interact with it, what are its technical limitations and how it looks. Thus (as in the experiment), Google Maps makes virtual changes to the real city, ”the artist writes.

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The streets where Simon walked were practically not loaded with cars, most likely because the drivers tried to avoid the “red” sections.

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