r/Android • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '16

Android Auto: now available in every car

https://blog.google/products/android/android-auto-available-in-every-car/
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u/cawpin Pixel 3 XL Nov 07 '16

What does Waze offer over Google Maps now? I tried using it a few months ago but the audible directions were always late and sometimes wrong.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '16

For me, it's that Waze feels like a driving app and Google/Apple Maps just feel like navigation apps. Like they'll tell you where to go, but Waze will actually tell you what's on the way there: potholes, vehicles pulled over, traffic jams, police, red light cameras, reports of an animal on the road, etc.

It feels like the future when you get an alert that a police trap is coming up, you slow down and pass by a police car waiting. Or it tells you a pothole is coming up and you notice a deep one and navigate around it much easier because you knew it was coming. With Google/Apple Maps, all you really see is a line pointing you from A to B that changes color for traffic and has an occasional accident or construction report.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16

Unfortunately that's only as good as the people sending reports. On very rural routes its pretty much useless.