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With Google's shift to provide answers, not just information, Maps seems like a crutch. If I'm in a fully autonomous car, I don't want to look at a map. I want
by shostack 10y ago
With Google's shift to provide answers, not just information, Maps seems like a crutch.
If I'm in a fully autonomous car, I don't want to look at a map. I want to tell my assistant where I want to go and not worry about the rest.
This would be akin to providing the answer (getting you from A to B) without the information (poking at a map).
- greglindahl 10y agoThere are a ton of ambiguous place-names.
- usrusr 10y agoExactly. Search, Maps and now Android (with and without voice assistant) are basically methods to sell influence on our decisionmaking. When cars become the day to day search interface for drivers/riders, Google will be in a much weaker position for that. Except if they somehow achieve a relationship with hardware companies as symbiotic as in Android smartphones. Just being a backend search provider would be a step back for Google, because that is pretty much a commodity transaction where gatekeepers can negotiate for a sizable slice of the pie (see Firefox).