AutoVehicle TechGoogle Maps needs this navigation feature as soon as possibleMapping app has a system to stop you driving in the wrong directionWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
AutoVehicle TechGoogle Maps needs this navigation feature as soon as possibleMapping app has a system to stop you driving in the wrong directionWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Mapping app has a system to stop you driving in the wrong direction
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(Image credit: General Motors)
(Image credit: General Motors)
A Slovakia-based mapping application has just rolled out a feature thatGoogle Maps,Apple Maps, Waze and every other navigation app should have – an alert for when drivers are heading in the wrong direction.
Driving on the wrong side of a motorway or highway is thankfully rare, but when it does happen the result can be catastrophic. We like how Sygic is looking to address this, especially when it comes to using the app’s crowdsourcing system to warn other drivers. That way, users can slow down, look out and potentially pull over to avoid the driver who is on the wrong side of the road.
A universal system could be the answer here, where an alert about a wrong-way driver could be distributed across all mapping apps, at the same time. However, given the occasional vagueness of GPS signals, which sometimes struggle to work out which road a car is on if several carriageways cross over each other, we wonder if such an alert could ever truly be reliable.
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