Comment on If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge

Kid_Thunder@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• thebustinator@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Traffic overlay without a destination has existed for years…

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  • iamjackflack@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On mobile apps? I just looked at a couple samplings of highways and there’s nothing. Is this on the web site specifically?

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It does. Tap the Overlay button (above the compass) and enable Traffic.

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      • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wish it also showed the speed limit of the road you’re on even if you’re not actively navigating.

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      • iamjackflack@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah sometimes it’s just knowing an option is there. Thank you kind internet stranger

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• SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about if you have a destination, find me a rest area/restaurant/whatever that is on the route. Not just around somewhere.

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  • astropenguin5@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can pretty well? The search along route feature works pretty well, sure there are a few things a little out of the way but not much

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t even know this was a feature until now… It’s buried in the dropdown menu like setting an arrival time.

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• chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure hasn’t! Would be nice to add speed traps and hazards from Android auto too

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  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they'll replace it with a few of the features of Waze but without ads, adds stuff that have been asked for by people for years and the Google Maps look, call it Google Ways and act like it's going to be continued to be developed as Google Maps 2.0. Then Google Maps goes away but Google Ways never gets updated with anymore features.

    All the competitors on the market lose a large part of their customer base now.

    Then one day Google Maps makes a reappearance to replace Google Ways. You can now select an icon to represent your car but otherwise, it has no Waze features and has less features than the original Google Maps but they promise they'll be porting those features over. They never do.

    That's pretty much the kind of thing I expect from Google.

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• thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about audio alerts for hazards and speed traps ONLY!

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  • Pretzilla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that already an option - alerts only?

    What other alerts pop up? KFC ahead?

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    • thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Alerts only includes upcoming turns. I don’t want audio notifications of turns. Only speed traps and hazards.

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      • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s that midway sound setting that only makes noise if you screw up, but not every little turn. That also alerts for those things in my experience. It also welcomes me when I cross a state line which I think is sweet 😊

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• wesley@yall.theatl.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m still waiting for offline bicycle, transit and WALKING directions. Why can’t it tell me which way to walk without internet but it can tell me how to drive a car??

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• londos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Would also love to have just an ETA without directions. I usually don’t need them commuting or going about town, but I keep them up anyway to keep track of time. Would love just an ETA widget.

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’d have to know where you’re going, and an eta only works if you follow the path it thinks you’re going to be taking. The best you can probably do is directions, but mute the alerts.

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    • londos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s how I usually do it, just leaving it muted. I’d expect to continue to enter a destination. The ETA would update if I take a wrong turn, choose another route or get caught in traffic. Basically it should work exactly as it currently does, I just don’t want to have the map on the screen sometimes.

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