The brand new characteristic can be obtainable on Android and iOS units and is meant “to assist make the selection between toll roads and common roads simpler.” Customers will have the ability to see the estimated toll worth to their vacation spot earlier than they even start navigating. Google Maps will contemplate quite a lot of components earlier than offering the estimate and recommending a route. It would have a look at the place there’s a “toll cross or not, what the day of the week it’s, together with how a lot the toll is anticipated to price on the particular time you’ll be crossing it.”
Customers will even have the choice to pick “Keep away from Tolls,” as they’ve had prior to now. The toggle for toll costs can be on by default. Nonetheless, customers will have the ability to disable toll costs underneath Settings>Navigation ought to they so select.
Google Maps customers will start to see the toll estimates over the subsequent few weeks. The estimates will cowl over 2,000 toll roads in america, India, Japan, and Indonesia. Google guarantees that extra nations can be obtainable quickly.
Google Maps added a slew of options final yr to enhance navigation. For instance, one characteristic provides a “climate layer” in order that customers might “rapidly see present and forecasted temperature and climate circumstances in an space.” Customers also can have a look at the air high quality in a selected location. One other useful characteristic is the flexibility to decide on eco-friendly transportation. Customers are in a position to see how lengthy it’ll take to journey to a vacation spot by automobile, public transit, or bike all without having to toggle between tabs. Google Maps is working with america Division of Power’s Nationwide Renewable Power Lab as effectively to counsel routes that “[optimize] for decrease gasoline consumption primarily based on components like highway incline and visitors congestion.”
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