How to simulate a traffic jam on Google Maps with 99 phones

Publié le 03 mai 2026

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In this video, Simon Weckert hacks Google Map with a simple trick: he virtually generates a large number of cars on Google Map using 99 smartphones in a small cart.

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The satellite detects 99 cars gathered in a small area and therefore considers that there is a huge traffic jam.

With this trick, it would be possible to change traffic, because Google Map usually redirects vehicles through a detour onto less busy streets when it detects a traffic jam.

It is pretty clever, but others should not start reproducing this scheme, or it could reduce the performance of Google Map navigation.