It's fascinating to witness this byproduct of the ubiquity of Google Maps / Waze as it begins introducing traffic jams of it's own creation. So many people are directed to alternate routes en masse that Google has the power to direct the flow of traffic.

This is one of those AI-run-amok problems that everyone has been so worried about. A Google robot is algorithmically directing our traffic now, no self-driving cars necessary. A bot potentially throwing an enormous monkey wrench in billions of dollars worth of traffic planning done by city engineers all over the world. Going to be interesting to see how all this shakes out