Google Maps is an open-source mapping application developed by Google. It helps users around the globe to navigate their location including street view. It also offers real-time traffic and street views that help users plan their movement by foot, car, bicycle, and air (in beta). Google Maps uses GPS and location data from users’ smartphones to determine if there is traffic congestion on a particular street then Google Maps App will now give users options for less congested streets to avoid congested traffic.
How To Create Fake Google Maps Traffic Using Multiple Smartphones:
- Google uses Google Maps to passive all Google Maps users to determine the condition of traffic and streets. If multiple Google Maps users turn on and use their Google Maps on a particular street or road, then Google Maps appears with red lines indicating that the street or road is congested. Congested streets in Google Maps redirect other Google Maps users to other streets.
- To cause fake Google traffic or create fake Google map traffic, multiple Google Maps should be active on multiple smartphones. The best demonstration of Google Maps hacking was done by an Artist (Simon Weckert) from Berlin, Germany who had put multiple smartphones together with Google Maps turned on and walked by foot around Berlin streets along with smartphones. He had done this just to make the streets empty and navigate cars to another street to avoid being stuck in traffic.
The above demonstration by Simon Weckert shows when he actually moves by foot just to cause the movement of the traffic to slow and seems hard to resolve soon. If they stop in one place, then the traffic will be more complicated.
This possibility has made hackers and security experts conduct more research into how to make this possible using a piece or a couple of smartphones to carry out this Fake Google Maps Traffic hack.