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Re:Applebot by axaxs on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:11AM (#24338485)
Google Maps is making it easier on them by seemingly becoming worse and worse, in my opinion. The newest act of telling you it's changing your route if you don't click something is so idiotic it borders on malice. So going 70mph down the expressway, I need to take my eyes off the road to read the message and click a button asking it not to take action.

Further, it repeatedly picks a hard route. There's one park I go to that's easier to drive to using one few mile stretch of highway. Google insists it's faster to take these back, poorly lit, windy 2 lane roads. Maybe it is. But it turns a safe easy 3 turn trip into a nerve-wracking 10 turn trip. And it will, as noted above, keep trying to reroute me if I just ignore it and go the easy way.

Re:Applebot by Polylactic_acid on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:42AM (#24338629)
Another thing google maps always does to me is telling me what the next turn is when its too late and I can't make it anymore. Using google maps with audio only is impossible.
Re:Applebot by sheeshkebab on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:18AM (#24338522)
Noticed that recently too - it insisted on taking stupid backroads and what not, instead of straight highway and no traffic. It seems to be getting dumber, or something.