#drivingdirections — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #drivingdirections, aggregated by home.social.
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The Drive: Google Maps Is Now Terrible: Explained. “Have you noticed that Google Maps (or your navigation app of choice) doesn’t work as well as it used to? Maybe the quickest possible route still isn’t that quick, or those quiet backstreets that used to serve as a clever shortcut are now choked with traffic as well. It’s not your imagination. GPS-based routing apps have gotten worse, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/13/google-maps-is-now-terrible-explained-the-drive/ -
Phone Arena: T-Mobile just lost a customer forever thanks to a Google Maps ad that nearly caused a crash. “The author described driving toward a destination when Google Maps suddenly asked whether they wanted to add a stop at a nearby T-Mobile store. The prompt appeared in large alert-style lettering just as they were passing through an intersection, and they felt that any unexpected movement […]