Over the past summer we learned that Google maps started to show the location of traffic lights on their cards, but as expected, it has only been released in the United States in the hope that it will arrive in our country sooner or later.
Well, that day has finally arrived. Google Maps already displays traffic lights in Europe. Now, by exploring their maps, we can see the location of each of the traffic lights that are on each of their streets and highways.
Traffic lights on Google Maps
This novelty does not have much of a mystery. Now when enlarging a map we can see a small traffic light icon to show us the position of these light signals to regulate traffic.
This icon only shows the location of a traffic light, it will not show us if the traffic light will be green, amber or red, because it is enough to indicate its presence to be attentive to the traffic light that we will find during traffic.
The traffic light warning is convenient for identify if a wait is caused by an accident or a traffic lightSo when calculating the route we can decide at which traffic lights we want to avoid.
Google Maps also shows the location of traffic lights during navigationAlthough this feature does not appear to be fully enabled yet, as it currently only works while browsing by bike and on foot. In car navigation, it still does not display the traffic lights, but this is expected to be fixed in a few days.
