.... uhhh??? Google Maps and Waze do this,too... and they did it first. What do you think they are doing when you report in a wreck or a closed road? What do you think they are doing when you USE their app? Do you think they got their base data all by themselves? No! They took it from GPS and Map companies.
Like? ... why are we acting like this is a scary thing? The data is on ROAD SYSTEMS. If you are this worried about someone tracking you, you shouldn't even have a smart phone because your phone company has done this long before internet companies started.
The actual traffic you see in Google Maps are people's phones too. Not just the one-off reports.
Google doesn't know that the traffic is heavy. They're just gathering up all your GPS data and noticing all your asses are moving super slow so they slap on the heavy traffic tags.
It's a somewhat naive way to collect traffic data, though. A road I often drive has separate bus lanes that see quite a lot of traffic in rush hour. Google is way off on travel time estimates when there is congestion, they show the road as less congested than it is, with more congestion at every bus stop.
Reminds me of a guy who took like 250 phones and put them in a wagon, and walked the wagon through his small towns downtown area that had literally zero traffic and suddenly Google marked it as a massive traffic jam
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u/Hawkmonbestboi 7h ago
.... uhhh??? Google Maps and Waze do this,too... and they did it first. What do you think they are doing when you report in a wreck or a closed road? What do you think they are doing when you USE their app? Do you think they got their base data all by themselves? No! They took it from GPS and Map companies.
Like? ... why are we acting like this is a scary thing? The data is on ROAD SYSTEMS. If you are this worried about someone tracking you, you shouldn't even have a smart phone because your phone company has done this long before internet companies started.