Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide “don’t give me any directions until I get to X step” and/or “don’t give any directions after X step”. I dont like hearing the navigation when I don’t need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I’m still driving.
Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one… DON’T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!
I feel this has become so much worse the past couple months. "There’s an accident ahead reported 8 hours ago, I’m gonna reroute to the highway you asked me to avoid, you have 5 seconds to decline :) ". Cool, guess I’ll need to pull over and fix it, again.
As implemented, it’s beyond terrible. The only way I know of to disable it is to turn off mobile data (or disable mobile data for google services / maps). Maybe that’s changed semi-recently, I dunno.
I can understand the utility of a feature that can dynamically adjust your directions so that you’re always on the fastest route, but what Google has implemented has serious and dangerous flaws. The fact that the change in route is automatic and without my consent unless I interact with my phone in a set interval of time WHILE DRIVING is ridiculous, and once it switches over, there’s no quick and easy way to undo that.
Additionally, it doesn’t seem to understand that I don’t care if the toll road will save me 3 minutes on this trip, I don’t want to pay a toll or deal with the inevitable billing screw up. I don’t care if making a dozen turns through unfamiliar urban/suburban side streets will questionably save me 5 minutes, I’d prefer the relative safety and predictability of a straight path down the interstate. I also don’t want to drive down a winding, unlit rural highway after dark during deer season just because it’s a few minutes faster than if I stayed on the well-lit road with a lot more vehicle activity.
And, that’s just the start of my Google Maps rant.
Well yes we all know that, but the idea of the feature is that it saves you from messing up if you aren’t focused on your technology at a critical moment.
Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide “don’t give me any directions until I get to X step” and/or “don’t give any directions after X step”. I dont like hearing the navigation when I don’t need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I’m still driving.
Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one… DON’T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!
I feel this has become so much worse the past couple months. "There’s an accident ahead reported 8 hours ago, I’m gonna reroute to the highway you asked me to avoid, you have 5 seconds to decline :) ". Cool, guess I’ll need to pull over and fix it, again.
As implemented, it’s beyond terrible. The only way I know of to disable it is to turn off mobile data (or disable mobile data for google services / maps). Maybe that’s changed semi-recently, I dunno.
I can understand the utility of a feature that can dynamically adjust your directions so that you’re always on the fastest route, but what Google has implemented has serious and dangerous flaws. The fact that the change in route is automatic and without my consent unless I interact with my phone in a set interval of time WHILE DRIVING is ridiculous, and once it switches over, there’s no quick and easy way to undo that.
Additionally, it doesn’t seem to understand that I don’t care if the toll road will save me 3 minutes on this trip, I don’t want to pay a toll or deal with the inevitable billing screw up. I don’t care if making a dozen turns through unfamiliar urban/suburban side streets will questionably save me 5 minutes, I’d prefer the relative safety and predictability of a straight path down the interstate. I also don’t want to drive down a winding, unlit rural highway after dark during deer season just because it’s a few minutes faster than if I stayed on the well-lit road with a lot more vehicle activity.
And, that’s just the start of my Google Maps rant.
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I get it but there is an easy toggle from spoken directions to alerts which I find easy to toggle.
At least on Apple and Google maps
Well yes we all know that, but the idea of the feature is that it saves you from messing up if you aren’t focused on your technology at a critical moment.
You can set the voiced directions in Google maps to mute
But he wants voiced directions.
Just only when they’re actually useful.