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A comment on Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phones In A Trailer (2020).

Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by BillSaysThis on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:32PM (#29631886)
One would think Google Maps can be updated to ignore this kind of use case. Even the biggest busses don't care more than what, 50 people? Just ignore the signals when there are more than say 10 phones inside a three meter radius, with whatever values for those two variables are based on real data.

Kind of hilarious though that the artist dreamed this up.

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Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by xuki on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:54PM (#29632074)
People on bus usually don’t have Google Maps open, and definitely don’t use turn by turn navigation.
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Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by jimmygrapes on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:06PM (#29632157)
It does have bus route information and indicators when to switch lines, as well as walking turn by turn instructions for times when you might need to walk to a different bus stop to complete the route.
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Re:Man Creates Traffic Jams By Wheeling Around 99 Cell Phone... by cozzyd on Monday December 20, 2021 @07:03PM (#29632132)
Sounds like we should though to prevent congestion from motorists.
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