C'mon... Google maps will ask me turn my GPS every damn time I use it; no way "to remember this choice", but if I activated it, it is super happy to remember it.
Please keep your eyes on the road and obey applicable laws. Do not manipulate this application while in motion. Directions may be inaccurate, incomplete, dangerous, or prohibited.
Traffic data is not real-time, and location accuracy cannot be guaranteed
>At an unfamiliar complex intersection (greater than 4-way), sometimes you can't figure out where the GPS wants you to go. A quick pinch-zoom before the light turns can give you the visual queue you need to avoid having to make a last minute decision as you enter the intersection.
Seems like a usability problem. Google Maps displays what lanes go in what directions so you don't have to zoom in on the map and will speak it to you so you don't even have to look at your phone/Android Auto/etc.
At night the design choices are really bad. The active route and the alternate routes look so close in hex color, it's made me drive through the wrong wrong twice in the last few days.
> zoom around until the name of the street I'm currently in decides to appear.
This is especially bad if you're on a bus and want to see where the stops are, so you know when to ring the bell. GMaps makes you zoom so far in that you're constantly scrolling the map to keep up with the bus.
I hate Google maps when it shuts itself off with a 'journey complete' status while I'm still looking for the corner or the building that I was supposed to arrive at.
Another thing google maps always does to me is telling me what the next turn is when its too late and I can't make it anymore. Using google maps with audio only is impossible.
Google maps being wrong is not a danger, it is an inconvenience. Drivers are responsible for their own driving, no map app is perfect. It is completely unreasonable to assume or expect that Google Maps routes are always correct and safe.
Elsewhere, driving into a wrong area might cost you your life. Specifically not referring to particular areas to avoid offtopic flame war, but other apps would alert you about it - but not Google Maps.
Every time I use Google Maps, I feel so helpless, and frankly, stupid. On Desktop, I simply can't figure it out how to switch to A-B route mode, nor how to trigger street view. I literally just click randomly in a more and more frustrated way until suddenly the option appears.
And on Android I just avoid the app. I hate that I couldn't turn off the automatic compass. Every time I finally manage to orient myself when in a new place, the map starts spinning like crazy.
just recently Google Maps on Android started acting like its clueless about its location for the first 100 feet of travel. God forbid you pull up to a gas station on a corner of an intersection. No way in hell it will figure out which way to go to get back on the highway. Must drive for a minute in a random direction for Google Maps to figure out where you are, which way you are headed and which way your destination is.
I reported multiple places where google maps (or in this case the tesla navigation system which runs on the same) gives dangerous instructions.
One of them is right here https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6293355,-122.1879246,112m/da...
The assistant will tell you to stay keep left (which you don't have to since both lanes converge later) way too late, causing a lot of people to cross the median last second, this caused numerious accidents.
I reported this condition twice, no actions on their end was taken.
The problem is that Google nominally operates at two levels of abstraction — one is showing you the map, of that's all they did there would have been no issue — that's parity with a paper map & up to the user to navigate.
But at a higher level of abstraction, they provide directions: basically "outsourcing" interpretation of the map to them. Here there's definitely an onus on them to say "Sorry, no route found" and _tell_ the user they need to interpret the app themselves.
By suggesting a route, they're obviously suggesting it's a safe/viable route. If they can't guarantee that, they should err on the side of caution.
Right. Last I tried, it's terribly difficult to get Google maps to show you directions for a bus route you just jumped on (and so it thinks you'll miss if you try to board).
the maps app will show that warning every damn time gps is enabled. every. single. time.
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