You must log in or register to comment.
I am convinced that Google maps runs ‘canary routes’. Like a canary in a coal mine testing the air - If I am on a road and it decides to send me down an unused lane, which eventually spits me back out on to the main road, that’s when it has decided it needs to refresh the data in that area and I was the unlucky one chosen to do it.
If I was designing it, that’s probably what I would add, but I’ve never seen a reference to it…
My conspiracy theory is that sometimes it sends streams of cars down lanes like that to reduce traffic for others/VIPs. I’m not usually a tin-foil hat person but after a SF commute it makes me wonder.
My conspiracy theory is that companies will soon pay Google to redirect traffic past their businesses within an acceptable delay. For example, as long as it’s not more than 1-2min delay, make sure they pass this KFC.
And most of us only care that the time estimate is accurate within about a minute anyway.
Had this happen in Denver one year while traveling through. Traveling north on I-25 it dumped me out in a downtown street along with a bunch of others and then back on the interstate 30 MINUTES LATER. Would’ve taken 5 min staying on dammed I-25. No accidents or congestion it was avoiding according to it, Apple Maps, and Waze.
Oh sorry to hear that, but Yh users need to first experience mistakes/errors before Google can fix. That’s just how it works now.
