In a statement on his website, Weckert said his intention was to make changes in the physical world by using digital means.
“Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red, which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route to avoid being stuck in traffic,” he wrote.
He said he was interested in the day-to-day use of technology in all aspects of life within cities, including in navigation, accommodation, dating, transport, and food-delivery.
Citing a journal article by anthropologist Moritz Ahlert, he wrote: "Google’s map service has fundamentally changed our understanding of what a map is, how we interact with maps, their technological limitations, and how they look aesthetically.
“All of these apps function via interfaces with Google Maps and create new forms of digital capitalism and commodification,” the article continued.
Residential streets aren’t generally intended for through traffic. They’re meant to provide access to the people who live there. These are areas where kids play and people go on walks and stuff, having a bunch of cars run through trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible is not ideal. That’s why you get cul-de-sacs, intentionally designed with one way in or out, to prevent drivers from cutting through.
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A better solution is a modal filter to enforce local traffic only rules
Dude did it as “art”.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-04/man-creates-fake-traffic-jam-on-google-maps-by-carting-99-phones/11929136
And for all these other reasons too.
Aren’t streets… designed… to be passed through?
Residential streets aren’t generally intended for through traffic. They’re meant to provide access to the people who live there. These are areas where kids play and people go on walks and stuff, having a bunch of cars run through trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible is not ideal. That’s why you get cul-de-sacs, intentionally designed with one way in or out, to prevent drivers from cutting through.
Oh I misunderstood OP’s message, thought they meant pedestrians as well. My apologies.
We have a real issue with the conflation of streets and roads in North America. Some people call these abominations stroads.
Proper urban planning makes a stark distinction between a street:
And a road:
Oh, so that’s why its always quicker going through the back-streets but Google sends me through the clogged arteries like I’m Sheeple?
Makes sense, I guess. I’ll probably keep doing it even though it is a bit of a dick move
…no…?
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