Artist creates faux traffic jams in Google Maps by strolling through streets with 99 cell phones

Simon Wreckert tricked Google Maps into reporting traffic jams in Berlin when the streets were actually empty. — AFP Relaxnews

Over the weekend, a video was published by an artist demonstrating how Google Maps can be fooled into thinking there's a traffic jam by someone simply carrying about 100 cell phones along empty streets.

On Feb 1, a German artist by the name of Simon Wreckert tricked Google Maps into thinking that cars were gridlocked back to back in Berlin by pulling a little red wagon filled with 99 cell phones down empty streets. The virtual traffic jam occurred wherever he brought his phone-filled wagon, in which all of the Android devices inside had Google Maps open.