The reason? Because (non-religious) Israelis with cell phones were walking or bicycling on the nearly empty major roads and Google saw that they were traveling very slowly (compared to normal car speeds.)
(h/t Yenta Press)
UPDATE: Video:
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Those Israeli "traffic jams" on Yom Kippur (update)
Yanai Cohen on Twitter notices that Google Maps was showing many of Israel's main highways jammed on Yom Kippur - when practically no one drives:
The reason? Because (non-religious) Israelis with cell phones were walking or bicycling on the nearly empty major roads and Google saw that they were traveling very slowly (compared to normal car speeds.)
(h/t Yenta Press)
UPDATE: Video:
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The reason? Because (non-religious) Israelis with cell phones were walking or bicycling on the nearly empty major roads and Google saw that they were traveling very slowly (compared to normal car speeds.)
(h/t Yenta Press)
UPDATE: Video: