[ahi]

Google Maps has some strange feedback loops. I frequently drive across the Bay Bridge to Delaware beaches. There are 2 or 3 roughly equal routes with everyone going to the same destination. Google will find a "shorter" route every 5 minutes. Naturally, Maps is smart enough to detect traffic, but not smart enough to equally distribute users to prevent it. It creates a traffic jam on route A, then tells all the users to use route B which causes a jam there, and so on.

[zahlman]

It hadn't even occurred to me that there are places where enough people are using Google Maps while driving to cause significant impact on traffic patterns. Being car-free (and smartphone-free) really gives a different perspective.

[aucisson_masque]

Are you Theodore Kaczynski ghost? :)

Seriously what job you do that allows you to not have a smartphone ?

[lolinder]

Not OP: I have a smartphone for my own personal use but don't use it for work at all. If my employer wants me to use specific phone apps they can provide one for me like they do a laptop.

[aucisson_masque]

yeah so you got a smartphone, the dude was saying he doesn't have a smartphone.

no smartphone make it a real pain in the ass to do most things nowadays, job is one of the biggest but it's not the least. to even connect to my bank account on my computer i need a phone.

[zahlman]

Cell phones exist which are not smartphones, and everyone who uses phones for 2FA is happy to send 2FA codes to a "dumb" phone. They only have your phone number, after all.

[aucisson_masque]

Well my bank doesn't give me the possibility to use SMS code. It's obligatory to use the app on a verified phone and put a pin.

[conaclos]

This is also problematic in cases where navigation apps are not updated and drivers start taking routes they are no longer authorized to take.