Has no one reverse engineered the Waze API to add artificial slowdowns in their neighborhood?
The conclusion to the story:
> Soon after, Connor went rogue. He experimented with Waze, confirmed it was sending drivers down his street and began filing his false reports.
> “It didn’t do much and within two weeks they stopped showing up on the map all together,” Connor said. “They were on to me.”
> The traffic flow began to wane when the road construction ended, Connor said, but remains three or four times higher than before it began. For some drivers, their app-inspired shortcut became a permanent route.
HN on the WaPo article from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11846722
You can coordinate with your neighbors to take turns. Civil disobedience can go a long waze to reduce traffic.... I gotta go!
Consider also the “you’re going up against google in terms of development resources and compute power.” That’s not a fight you will win.
Is this legal?