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Re:Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss”... by mabbo on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:55AM (#37174428)
https://youtu.be/k5eL_al_m7Q

He put 99 smart phones in a wagon with all of them running Google maps in drive mode. Google interpreted this as a traffic jam, and made other cars avoid the area.

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Re:Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss”... by jacquesm on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:22AM (#37175251)
Oh that's totally priceless. I definitely have some use for this :)

Invisible-Roadblocks-as-a-Service courtesy of Google.

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Re:Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss”... by swader999 on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:26AM (#37175304)
There's a unicorn in there somehow.
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Re:Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss”... by reaperducer on Friday August 18, 2023 @10:35AM (#37176218)
There's a unicorn in there somehow.

Absolutely.

Rich enclaves paying you to drive a bucket of cell phones around the neighborhood slowly in an electric golf cart.

Or simpler: The rich enclaves pay you to supply their existing private security cars/carts with buckets of charged phones to drive slowly around their existing routes.

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Re:Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss”... by mabbo on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:30PM (#37183532)
I feel like there's a great movie plot point you could write where the bank robbers use this trick to clear traffic out of their way during the escape.
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Re:Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss”... by throwthat1 on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:42PM (#37212047)
I wonder what percentage of cars use google maps to navigate at any one point though
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Re:Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss”... by dang on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:20PM (#37179919)
Discussed at the time:

Google Maps Hacks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821 - Feb 2020 (382 comments)

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