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Any maps app that, when you set a route, lets you decide "don't give me any directions until I get to X step" and/or "don't give any directions after X step". I dont like hearing the navigation when I don't need it, and that would save me from having to open or close the navigation while I'm still driving.
I'll add on to this a feature that lets you know when multiple quick directions are coming up. I don't like being told to exit, then told to get to the right lane within 500ft, and then make sure to take the left ramp 100ft after that. Just let me know there's a complicated maneuver coming up.
Adding on. An option to set complicated maneuver(s) up ahead voice notification and a prep notification for said complicated maneuver. The latter gives you an end goal statement. Such as, 'Be in the left turn lane on the ramp up ahead.' Then if you desire to enable it in the settings, hear what step-by-step actions need to be taken.
This generally does happen on iphone maps. At least when I have two back to back things I need to do it's normally phrased like "do this, and then shortly after do that"
Tomtom made the first steps with this almost 20 years ago, it could show a second quick instruction in a smaller box, and it only showed it like that if it was in quick succession. Kind of crazy that a gazillion dollar company somehow can't pin it down
Hijacking this with my mini rant: GOOGLE if you provide me with three possible routes to my destination and I specifically select one... DON'T FUCKING CHANGE IT MID-DRIVE GODDAMMIT!
I feel this has become so much worse the past couple months. "There's an accident ahead reported 8 hours ago, I'm gonna reroute to the highway you asked me to avoid, you have 5 seconds to decline :) ". Cool, guess I'll need to pull over and fix it, again.
As implemented, it's beyond terrible. The only way I know of to disable it is to turn off mobile data (or disable mobile data for google services / maps). Maybe that's changed semi-recently, I dunno.
I can understand the utility of a feature that can dynamically adjust your directions so that you're always on the fastest route, but what Google has implemented has serious and dangerous flaws. The fact that the change in route is automatic and without my consent unless I interact with my phone in a set interval of time WHILE DRIVING is ridiculous, and once it switches over, there's no quick and easy way to undo that.
Additionally, it doesn't seem to understand that I don't care if the toll road will save me 3 minutes on this trip, I don't want to pay a toll or deal with the inevitable billing screw up. I don't care if making a dozen turns through unfamiliar urban/suburban side streets will questionably save me 5 minutes, I'd prefer the relative safety and predictability of a straight path down the interstate. I also don't want to drive down a winding, unlit rural highway after dark during deer season just because it's a few minutes faster than if I stayed on the well-lit road with a lot more vehicle activity.
And, that's just the start of my Google Maps rant.
I agree with you but there is a setting to turn off tolls and faries, etc.
Those work at the beginning, when you first set your route, but I don't think they necessarily work when the app re-routes you. At least, the no toll option doesn't seem to work around here in the past. Hopefully it's fixed now. I'm all for that.
Might have been a bug. I've set it to never take me through either and it never has. Might also be area dependant.
Or stop zooming in to the max, leaving me with zero information! The only choice left is to blindly drive into the river when instructed to do so.
I think this is a brilliant feature. I've never thought of it, but this would totally solve the issue I have with being told basically 15 times some version of "don't get off the highway at the junction" which is really annoying so I end up muting the directions the majority of the time, and that backfires pretty consequentially on occasion.
I get it but there is an easy toggle from spoken directions to alerts which I find easy to toggle.
At least on Apple and Google maps
Well yes we all know that, but the idea of the feature is that it saves you from messing up if you aren't focused on your technology at a critical moment.
You can set the voiced directions in Google maps to mute
But he wants voiced directions.
Just only when they're actually useful.