Simon Weckert, a general Maps user as us, has tried the simplest way to fool Google’s popular product. He put 99 smartphones in a wagon and walked through streets, including Google’s office and created virtual traffic in Maps! He made it such a way that Google believed that there’s traffic congestion in that path and turned red throughout. Which eventually led drivers to avoid this route assuming the traffic, contrary to reality.
He carefully managed to make Google believe that each smartphone is from a different vehicle and moving slowly is due to traffic. This clever act led Maps service to turn the path red and suggest an alternate way to drivers for quick passage.
The Replies
Upon noticing this experiment, a senior software engineer working at Google Maps tweeted as “I work for Google Maps and I know quite a bit of how it works. I believe this is possible.” After which, the most anticipated reply, Google, via its spokesperson responded to Simon’s act by saying,
