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Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed
- hulitu 1y ago> Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed ... and some people cannot use their brains and have to rely on Google to do it for them.
- para_parolu 1y agoIf the task is to create fastest route between German cities avoiding current and future traffic and also avoid road closures. How would you use your brain to solve it in reasonable time?
- potato3732842 1y agoBecause that isn't actually the task. you don't need the fastest, just "good enough". So you'll pick the major highways and follow any detour signage like you would have in the old days.
- kjkjadksj 1y agoIn the area where I live traffic planners have shored up all the inefficiencies that led to those apps saving you time in the past. Road diets. Right turn only out of side streets with a hardened median preventing a left or straight route. Speed bumps. Downright punitive light cycle timing (I’ve seen almost 5 minutes before). You often fare far worse in fact taking those labyrinthine google maps/waze circuits through these residential side streets and shed time just sticking on the major arterials and highways.
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- dmonitor 1y agoIf google maps told you a main road was closed, would your first instinct be to suspect that google maps is lying to you for the first time since you started using it? I'd sooner suspect a meteor landed on the road.
- FinnKuhn 1y agoEspecially as Thursday (the day this happened) is a public holiday in Germany, where bigger projects that require a complete closing of the highway (e.g. demolition of an old bridge) are often done to impact traffic as little as possible.
- hulitu 1y agoi don't use Google Maps for guidance. Google Maps was never built to do this. It was added as a "feature", but still does not work well, for the data it collects.
- V__ 1y agoI am amazed at Googles ineptitude here. Wouldn't you put some kind of warning or notification in place to notice an unusual amount of user reports and turn this feature off if necessary or block it in a specific region? This is a service which is supposedly responsible for about 11 billion in Googles revenue [1] and apparently has no Spam protection. [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-maps-poised-11-billion-063042568.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-maps-poised-11-billion...
- joezydeco 1y agoWaze, owned by Google, does this by asking other drivers to confirm reports on the ground. I don't recall Google Maps doing this.
- PeterStuer 1y agoAndroid auto has incorporated this 'feature' in maps.
- joezydeco 1y agoI get the feeling these two systems don't talk at all. I've used GMaps for navigation while on vacation in remote areas and the routing will be completely different than Waze, even when settings are made identical when it comes to time-vs-distance, avoid tolls, etc. Waze is much, much better.
- PeterStuer 1y agoI use maps from android auto. I have never had Waze. I get requests on my screen to confirm an obstacle, a traffic jam or a police speed check is still there. I'm not claiming it is shared code, just shsred 'features'.
- madcaptenor 1y agoGoogle Maps does this in the US. But I've heard that it has different features in different places.
- jorgen123 1y agoWas the chaos on the Autobahn? The article say it was on alternate routes. Was the Autobahn blessed with light traffic as a result?
- 4gotunameagain 1y agoYes, as clearly stated in the linked article.
- jorgen123 1y agoMissed that "traffic was mostly flowing freely". Thanks.
- AStonesThrow 1y agoiPhones only. For a brief, shining moment, there was an Android-free Autobahn. Express lanes to the Apple Store.