Google Maps is about to become obsolete with this new tech
Staying up to date with the latest traffic and road conditions is one of the most valuable features drivers use, especially during long trips and on the highways. Waze is the perfect example of this as the application allows users to report what happens on the road, and is a feature, notably missing on Google Maps.
The information reported by the motorists on the road will then generate warnings for other motorists, which helps to make every trip more predictable. At the same time, Waze improves its routing model, generating faster routes to a destination by avoiding the regions where users are more likely to encounter slowdowns.
Moreover, while Waze is most effective where its users can report traffic conditions, as well as the application also collecting certain data automatically, despite its crowd sourcing engine, Waze still can’t be 100 percent accurate when it comes to identifying road incidents.
This is where Navigation expert company HERE comes in as it has come up with a new idea which is supposed to help deal with a major cause of slowdowns. Assuming this can be rolled out soon, then both Google Maps as well as Waze are in a lot of trouble indeed.
On top of that, this should come as a surprise to absolutely no one as he company’s products which are often considered top Google Maps alternatives, has developed a system to automatically identify work zones on a map and then help the other vehicles on the road reduce the impact on travel time.
Essentially, HERE wants to determine the location of roadworks, inform the other motorists, and give other vehicles enough time to react accordingly without any sort of user input. This would produce a wide range of benefits, but the most obvious is the reduced impact a work zone can have on traffic conditions.
Nobody likes sitting in traffic due to roadworks, so by knowing in advance that a possible slowdown could occur ahead, drivers get more time either to use the right lane or to switch to a different route.You simply can’t have that nifty heads up from Google Maps or Waze, can you?
This works mainly with cameras but of course, the technology can also import data from other sensors to detect the slowdowns, once the system establishes the location of roadworks, it can notify the other vehicles on the road before they reach the same point. Drivers of conventional vehicles can also receive the warning as well.
Needless to say, HERE can eventually improve the system using multiple information sources, such as advisories published by authorities themselves. A crowd sourcing component can help as well. This would be the final nail in the proverbial coffin of Google Maps and Waze and likely put them both out of business.
We got all this from Autoevolution and their full article is linked here. Thank you Autoevolution for the information and images.
