The application of cards par excellence on Android includes a small icon that shows the maximum speed of the road: this speed counter, present on Google Maps, works on the mobile and on the Android Auto screen. And it's very useful for Avoid traffic fines: Just do not exceed the figure that marks the above -mentioned speed counter. Do you want to know how it is activated?
Go to the car and let the mobile connect to the vehicle to load the Android Auto interface on the screen: this is the most common gesture for someone who has this infotainment system. And of course, the safest thing is that you go from one point to another Choose the fate of a GPS navigation application. Is Google Maps? Then you have a simple way to see the speed limit on any road.
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Among all the navigation options, there is a more or less elusive and it depends largely on the country where it is diffused: showing the speed limit. Introduced in 2016 for certain countries, then it was mostly adapted inside the speed counter: the speed counter modifies the color depending on whether you are faster than the license (becomes red) or if you run under the border (it stays in black).
Having the speed counter and the active speed limit allows you to get rid of fines, because you will know it at any time the speed at which you circulate and the maximum authorized In this section (in the event that the speed limit does not appear, you will always have the indicative color in the speed counter). It is a very useful function, although, in our opinion, Google Maps should display the slightly larger icon: it appears at the bottom left of the screen with a slightly small visual size.
To activate the speed counter with speed indicative and the speed limit for the section through which you circulate, you must do the following:
- Open Google Maps and click on your Avatar icon.
- Access the “adjustments” and go down to “navigation”.
- Go down to the “Driving Options” section.
- Leave the shift of “Speedometer“And, if it appears,”Speed limits».
- In the event that the option of “speed limits” does not appear that there is an almost infallible tip: it simulates the location of your Android site of the United States, follow the previous steps to enter the Google Maps navigation menu, Activate the “speed limits” score that will appear And stop simulating the location. You will keep the menu setting.
Speed limit for the road on Google Maps for Android Auto
Now, whenever you plan a route, the screen will show how fast you circulate at the time and at the limit of the road that you are traveling. This is valid for the mobile and Android car: the car console also includes the speed counter and the maximum speed indicator for the road.
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