If there are a few functions of Google Maps while driving that are particularly useful, they are the radar warning on the one hand and, on the other hand, the possibility of reporting incidents on the road, among which closed lanes or accidents. Be careful because there is also a combination of the two: that of report the presence of speed cameraswhich in practice generally results in police officers carrying out speed checks.
If you habitually press the accelerator beyond what the law requires and trust Google's GPS navigator to warn you of temporary speed checks, we have bad news for you: speed camera reports disappearfitting into another type of much more general incident.
Goodbye to the radar report on Google Maps: only “Police” will remain
If you usually drive, you have surely come across a police car parked on the side of the road, sometimes even hidden, to detect unsuspecting drivers who exceed the posted speed. This is one of the reasons why there can be an officer on the side of the road, but it is not the only one: he can also simply direct traffic, for example if there is construction work, traffic jams or if there has been an accident, but there are many other cases.
In this sense, assuming that there is a mobile radar simply by seeing the police on the shoulder is not the most accurate. Google therefore seems to have taken measures in this area and implemented a solution, as reported by Android Authority: it is withdrawal of the “Mobile Radar” option for the benefit of the Policea more generic impact.
This is in line with what was shown with Google itself in July, where this report was at the top of the list of all possible options. In addition to “Radar”, other options currently available are “Collision”, “Detention”, “Works”, “Lane cutting”, “Vehicle accident” and “Object on the road”. For now This modification reached the United States and was not applied in Europebut when it does, we imagine that the police warning will have a similar effect to that of a speed camera: maximizing attention and reducing speed. Below these lines, the image of the new interface thanks to Android Police:
In fact, Android Police goes even further and confirms something expected: when the change is widely applied in the mobile application, we will also see it in Android Auto and Apple CarPlay (although it's not Cupertino's default browser).
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