If there are several Google Maps functions behind the wheel that are particularly useful, they are the radar warning on the one hand, and the possibility of reporting incidents on the road, including closed lanes or accidents, on the other. Be careful because there is also a combination of the two: report the presence of radarsIn practice it usually comes in the form of police officers for speed checks.

If you often press the accelerator harder than required by law and rely on Google’s GPS navigator to warn you of temporary speed checks, we have bad news for you: speed radar reports disappearintegrating into another type of a much more general event.

Farewell to the radar report on Google Maps: Only ‘Police’ will remain from now on

If you usually drive, you have surely come across a police car parked on the side of the road, sometimes even hidden. Detect unsuspecting drivers exceeding posted speed. This is one reason why there is an officer on the roadside, but not the only reason: he may also be directing traffic, for example if there is construction work, a traffic jam or an accident, but there are many more cases there.

In this sense, it is not right to assume that it is a mobile radar just by seeing the police on the shoulder. So it looks like Google has taken action on the issue and implemented a solution, as reported by Android Authority: Withdrawal of ‘Mobile Radar’ option in favor of Policea more general phenomenon.

This is in line with what was shown on Google in July; this report was high on the list of all possible options. In addition to ‘Radar’, other options currently available include ‘Collision’, ‘Hold’, ‘Works’, ‘Lane Cut’, ‘Vehicle Accident’ and ‘Object on Road’. now This change reached the United States and was not implemented in Spainbut we imagine that when this happens the Police alert will have an effect similar to that of radar: maximize attention and reduce speed. Below these lines is the visual of the new interface, courtesy of Android Police:

In fact, Android Police goes one step further and confirms what was expected: When the change is widely implemented in the mobile app, we will see this in Android Auto as well and Apple CarPlay (though not Cupertino’s default browser).

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