Google Maps is preparing to give a very hard blow to taxi drivers, something that no one expected in the context in which UBER is giving them nightmares all over the world at the moment, but the measure will also affect them. Google Maps has started testing in India a function that will help people quickly find out if the route they are being taken by a taxi driver is wrong, and implicitly longer than it should be in reality.
Google Maps has implemented a special function in the application, which, as soon as it is activated by users, will display alerts when the route on which the user is traveling deviates by more than 500 meters from the normal one. This function for Google Maps is presented as one designed to keep people safe whether they are transported by taxi, UBER, or even public transportation.
Google Maps gives taxi drivers a HARD BLOW
Google Maps it will still give a very big blow to the taxi drivers who drive their customers around just to make more money on the rides, which happens very often, and not only in Romania. If in UBER you have a predefined route for the race, and you immediately see if you are walking around, in a taxi it can be more difficult, and so Google Maps helps people to avoid being tricked by taxi drivers, or to know if one, or an UBER driver, takes them somewhere other than the destination.
Google Maps implement this function to help the most people who travel in cities where they are for the first time, or which they do not know very well, and can be easily fooled by taxi drivers, or miss the line of a bus. The idea behind this function of Google Maps is very good, but of course a predefined route must be taken in the application before getting into a taxi, or UBER, in order to receive these alerts.
Google Maps is currently testing the function in India, a country where a lot of new functions for applications are being tested by many companies, but it is not known when exactly it would be launched publicly.
