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Are you suggesting that they have no choice but to completely stop locating the user as there's absolutely no way they could offer non-lane specific navigation?
by nmstoker 5y ago
Are you suggesting that they have no choice but to completely stop locating the user as there's absolutely no way they could offer non-lane specific navigation? The vast majority of it would be identical and I'm sure they could easily and gracefully degrade to that when strictly necessary.
- DocTomoe 5y agoHow much does a company need to degrade a service - at potentially great cost - to be compliant before they can claim it then would be better not to provide the service at all to customers unwilling to share data? I am not claiming that this is where Google needs to draw the line in the sand - but there obviously is such a limit to these considerations.
- lozenge 5y agoGoogle doesn't have lane data for every road in the world, yet clearly navigation is already implemented to work without it? I don't know why people throw up random excuses for companies instead of accepting the simplest answer - they want as much data as they can.
- MagnumOpus 5y agoGoogle was able to provide the service before, now they patched it out. So clearly it is not a question of ability to gracefully degrade but of willingness.