Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide “don’t give me any directions until I get to X step” and/or “don’t give any directions after X step”. I dont like hearing the navigation when I don’t need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I’m still driving.
I’ll add on to this a feature that lets you know when multiple quick directions are coming up. I don’t like being told to exit, then told to get to the right lane within 500ft, and then make sure to take the left ramp 100ft after that. Just let me know there’s a complicated maneuver coming up.
Adding on. An option to set complicated maneuver(s) up ahead voice notification and a prep notification for said complicated maneuver. The latter gives you an end goal statement. Such as, ‘Be in the left turn lane on the ramp up ahead.’ Then if you desire to enable it in the settings, hear what step-by-step actions need to be taken.
This generally does happen on iphone maps. At least when I have two back to back things I need to do it’s normally phrased like “do this, and then shortly after do that”
Tomtom made the first steps with this almost 20 years ago, it could show a second quick instruction in a smaller box, and it only showed it like that if it was in quick succession. Kind of crazy that a gazillion dollar company somehow can’t pin it down
Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one… DON’T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!
I feel this has become so much worse the past couple months. "There’s an accident ahead reported 8 hours ago, I’m gonna reroute to the highway you asked me to avoid, you have 5 seconds to decline :) ". Cool, guess I’ll need to pull over and fix it, again.
Well yes we all know that, but the idea of the feature is that it saves you from messing up if you aren’t focused on your technology at a critical moment.
Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide “don’t give me any directions until I get to X step” and/or “don’t give any directions after X step”. I dont like hearing the navigation when I don’t need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I’m still driving.
I’ll add on to this a feature that lets you know when multiple quick directions are coming up. I don’t like being told to exit, then told to get to the right lane within 500ft, and then make sure to take the left ramp 100ft after that. Just let me know there’s a complicated maneuver coming up.
Adding on. An option to set complicated maneuver(s) up ahead voice notification and a prep notification for said complicated maneuver. The latter gives you an end goal statement. Such as, ‘Be in the left turn lane on the ramp up ahead.’ Then if you desire to enable it in the settings, hear what step-by-step actions need to be taken.
This generally does happen on iphone maps. At least when I have two back to back things I need to do it’s normally phrased like “do this, and then shortly after do that”
Tomtom made the first steps with this almost 20 years ago, it could show a second quick instruction in a smaller box, and it only showed it like that if it was in quick succession. Kind of crazy that a gazillion dollar company somehow can’t pin it down
Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one… DON’T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!
I feel this has become so much worse the past couple months. "There’s an accident ahead reported 8 hours ago, I’m gonna reroute to the highway you asked me to avoid, you have 5 seconds to decline :) ". Cool, guess I’ll need to pull over and fix it, again.
Or stop zooming in to the max, leaving me with zero information! The only choice left is to blindly drive into the river when instructed to do so.
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I get it but there is an easy toggle from spoken directions to alerts which I find easy to toggle.
At least on Apple and Google maps
Well yes we all know that, but the idea of the feature is that it saves you from messing up if you aren’t focused on your technology at a critical moment.
You can set the voiced directions in Google maps to mute
But he wants voiced directions.
Just only when they’re actually useful.