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Google maps with Android Auto does auto-learn popular/regular destinations and suggests them at appropriate times. It works pretty well.

Thlom 4y ago
Apple Maps as well, but I have no idea why I would need directions to work from home ...
- richrichardsson 4y ago
  Although the route is (more or less) fixed and static, the amount of traffic isn't, so it could be useful to be re-routed to avoid congestion.
- acdha 4y ago
  Traffic and accidents might push you into different routes, especially if you have major decision points like which route you take around some geographic feature. When I drive in Los Angeles decades back even people who’d been driving there for ages wanted traffic reports to pick between roughly equivalent freeways because almost inevitably one of them would have much worse congestion due to an accident and you could save 20+ minutes.
  - yencabulator 4y ago
    Distances in LA aren't measured in miles, they're measured in time -- and the distance between two points changes based on time of day, direction, and events like sportsball or presidential visits. Knowing where to switch between freeways and surface streets, and what route to take in what conditions, can cut half off the driving time. Some examples of varying conditions from my personal history, even with optimal routing: Commute to work: 22 minutes. Commute home: 1h 16min. Go visit a friend: 45 minutes. Come back home at night: 16 minutes.
    - acdha 4y ago
      > Knowing where to switch between freeways and surface streets, and what route to take in what conditions, can cut half off the driving time. Yes - I remember as a kid learning how to read maps and noticing my dad's face when I was like "These cities are only 10 miles apart. Why does it take an hour to get to grandfather's?". The surface streets are an especially interesting blindspot a lot of drivers have. There was a period around the turn of the century where I was commuting between Santa Ana and Garden Grove and freeway traffic was generally manageable early in the morning but on the trip home it was often better to cruise down the surface streets where the lights were timed around 20mph than to sit in stop-and-go traffic on 405 or 55/5.
    - DonHopkins 4y ago
      Get out of here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCer2e0t8r8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCer2e0t8r8
- frankfrankfrank 4y ago
  You’ve clearly not enjoyed the benefits of progress yet where you are. Don’t worry, I’m sure it will reach you eventually. It is progress after all.
- mhandley 4y ago
  Driving in the London suburbs, I know how to get most places I want to go. In fact I usually know several different routes that are roughly similar in travel time. Google maps is excellent for telling me which one of those routes is least congested right now. So I'm not really using it for navigation, but for congestion information. It very rarely suggests a route I don't know, but I use it all the time anyway.
gambiting 4y ago
Does it? I have never seen it do it. Maybe it's only region-specific?
- throwaway744678 4y ago
  I believe it does when you set your home and work addresses
  - AndroidKitKat 4y ago
    It learns other patterns, too (which is kinda creepy). On Thursdays, I like to swing past a local taco shop on my way home after work and when I plug my phone into CarPlay, it prompts me navigation to the taco shop; it doesn't do this on any other day. Kinda a neat feature, but it makes you wonder what else it is learning.
msh 4y ago
apple maps do the same and also works quite well. I miss it in my tesla.
- speedgoose 4y ago
  Strange, I have this feature in mine.
- caf 4y ago
  The Tesla maps do it too, when you tap on the navigation address entry there's a list of 'Suggested' which is learned based on time of day / day of week.
  - msh 4y ago
    Thanks. Then I learned something new today.
newjersey 4y ago
> auto-learn There is a gate right behind me that is closed with chains. It isn't possible to drive through there, though you can walk in and out from the smaller gate. Google still always tells me to drive through the gate. I don't think Google Maps auto-learns. Maybe it needs a bigger sample size so people don't abuse it?
- acdha 4y ago
  If you use the reporting interface they seem to update promptly. There’s a major road near us where Google used to tell people to make a illegal left turn across 4 lanes of traffic, which was common enough that I used to see it almost every time I went by for years. Once I found the well-hidden reporting UI, that stopped two weeks later.
  - gambiting 4y ago
    There is a no-left-turn street near my work, and Google maps keeps telling me to turn left there. I've been reporting it every now and then since at least 2018 and it does nothing.
    - acdha 4y ago
      Yeah, don't ask me to defend Google on any customer service topic. I automatically believe any lapse you report.

Thlom 4y ago

Apple Maps as well, but I have no idea why I would need directions to work from home ...

richrichardsson 4y ago
Although the route is (more or less) fixed and static, the amount of traffic isn't, so it could be useful to be re-routed to avoid congestion.
acdha 4y ago
Traffic and accidents might push you into different routes, especially if you have major decision points like which route you take around some geographic feature. When I drive in Los Angeles decades back even people who’d been driving there for ages wanted traffic reports to pick between roughly equivalent freeways because almost inevitably one of them would have much worse congestion due to an accident and you could save 20+ minutes.
- yencabulator 4y ago
  Distances in LA aren't measured in miles, they're measured in time -- and the distance between two points changes based on time of day, direction, and events like sportsball or presidential visits. Knowing where to switch between freeways and surface streets, and what route to take in what conditions, can cut half off the driving time. Some examples of varying conditions from my personal history, even with optimal routing: Commute to work: 22 minutes. Commute home: 1h 16min. Go visit a friend: 45 minutes. Come back home at night: 16 minutes.
  - acdha 4y ago
    > Knowing where to switch between freeways and surface streets, and what route to take in what conditions, can cut half off the driving time. Yes - I remember as a kid learning how to read maps and noticing my dad's face when I was like "These cities are only 10 miles apart. Why does it take an hour to get to grandfather's?". The surface streets are an especially interesting blindspot a lot of drivers have. There was a period around the turn of the century where I was commuting between Santa Ana and Garden Grove and freeway traffic was generally manageable early in the morning but on the trip home it was often better to cruise down the surface streets where the lights were timed around 20mph than to sit in stop-and-go traffic on 405 or 55/5.
  - DonHopkins 4y ago
    Get out of here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCer2e0t8r8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCer2e0t8r8
frankfrankfrank 4y ago
You’ve clearly not enjoyed the benefits of progress yet where you are. Don’t worry, I’m sure it will reach you eventually. It is progress after all.
mhandley 4y ago
Driving in the London suburbs, I know how to get most places I want to go. In fact I usually know several different routes that are roughly similar in travel time. Google maps is excellent for telling me which one of those routes is least congested right now. So I'm not really using it for navigation, but for congestion information. It very rarely suggests a route I don't know, but I use it all the time anyway.

gambiting 4y ago

Does it? I have never seen it do it. Maybe it's only region-specific?

throwaway744678 4y ago
I believe it does when you set your home and work addresses
- AndroidKitKat 4y ago
  It learns other patterns, too (which is kinda creepy). On Thursdays, I like to swing past a local taco shop on my way home after work and when I plug my phone into CarPlay, it prompts me navigation to the taco shop; it doesn't do this on any other day. Kinda a neat feature, but it makes you wonder what else it is learning.

msh 4y ago

apple maps do the same and also works quite well. I miss it in my tesla.

speedgoose 4y ago
Strange, I have this feature in mine.
caf 4y ago
The Tesla maps do it too, when you tap on the navigation address entry there's a list of 'Suggested' which is learned based on time of day / day of week.
- msh 4y ago
  Thanks. Then I learned something new today.

newjersey 4y ago

> auto-learn There is a gate right behind me that is closed with chains. It isn't possible to drive through there, though you can walk in and out from the smaller gate. Google still always tells me to drive through the gate. I don't think Google Maps auto-learns. Maybe it needs a bigger sample size so people don't abuse it?

acdha 4y ago
If you use the reporting interface they seem to update promptly. There’s a major road near us where Google used to tell people to make a illegal left turn across 4 lanes of traffic, which was common enough that I used to see it almost every time I went by for years. Once I found the well-hidden reporting UI, that stopped two weeks later.
- gambiting 4y ago
  There is a no-left-turn street near my work, and Google maps keeps telling me to turn left there. I've been reporting it every now and then since at least 2018 and it does nothing.
  - acdha 4y ago
    Yeah, don't ask me to defend Google on any customer service topic. I automatically believe any lapse you report.