A few weeks ago one of the most spectacular events this year was announced: The user has created a jam of fake traffic on Google Maps with 99 mobiles and a cart. Simon Weckert, called a protester, managed to trick the use of the maps with some ingenuity, though later the Mountain View company respond to this & # 39; joke & # 39;. However, this thing is not the same as the artist who made the jam visible on Google Maps with 99 mobile phones and wheel drive outline how he used the plan.
Simon Weckert provided an interview on the domain of the Android Authority where he revealed all the details about his curious and intelligent, confirming that they were "real." The idea was that the artist did not have to take the symbolic number of 99 smartphones for Android, 99 different Google accounts, 99 SIM cards -Each one with different connections- and drag it through the streets of Berlin using a cart. With this, Simon Weckert has created a traffic jam that has caused some Google Maps drivers redirected to avoid "traffic".
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As you reported in the conversation, Simon Weckert had the idea of creating a false jam three years ago, where she was exhibiting on May 1 in Berlin. “I saw hundreds of depressed people walking down the street. I've watched Google Maps traffic again I saw a huge jam in the cars I was in, even though there wasn't a single car nearby, ”explains Weckert. At that time we had the exciting idea of reproducing or producing jam using only smartphones.
The idea came three years ago and it has taken more than 12 months to put the project together
Weckert confirmed that it took more than a year to plan and collect smartphones, since no builder or seller was willing to participate in the project. In addition, purchasing devices, even the second one, is also not possible due to a lack of funds. Finally, Weckert convinced enough friends to borrow their phones to perform this action, in addition to your Google accounts and SIMs; and many other devices that they rent.
Once assembled and validated, each phone was placed in transmission mode. Weckert also confirmed that he had not done any tests before implementing the program: “This is what people really like: one guy, 99 smartphones, interrupted the program".
The artist has made that clear Google did not contact him, though by then the company had already said that "whether by car, by car or by camel, we would like to see the use of Google Maps invention, since It helps us make maps better over time"Yes, an important piece of this project is that Weckert didn't risk and care enough do not specify the date the burglary occurred, who gave such a talk in recent weeks.
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