Driver Says He Ended Up on the Wrong Side of the Highway Due to Waze Directions
30 Jan 2020, 19:01 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / 2020 Chevy Silverado driver claims he caused fatal wrong-way crash after following directions provided by Waze navigation app
Don’t Use Google Maps to Drive to a Burger Place or You’ll End Up in a Volcano
27 Jan 2020, 17:24 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Burger stand and a handful of other restaurants show up on Google Maps inside volcano, potentially directing drivers to the middle of nowhere
Google Reveals Maps Numbers: 10 Million Miles of Street View Imagery
16 Dec 2019, 22:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Google goes public with figures showing the extent to which its services have mapped the world: 98% of the world is now accessible online
Google to Allow EV Charging Payments in the Maps App
22 Nov 2019, 13:38 UTC · By: Alex Carausu / Google’s tireless work to provide new and useful features for Google Maps, targets EV owners as a new update will include in-app payment options
Dozens of Drivers Follow GPS for Detour to Airport, Get Stuck in Mud
27 Jun 2019, 13:51 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A crash caused traffic issues on the interstate, so drivers turned to Google Maps for a detour. They ended up stuck on a muddy dirt road
Google Maps Now Show When EV Charging Stations Are Occupied
23 Apr 2019, 13:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new update for the Google Maps in the U.S. and UK will offer information about the availability of charging stations for electric cars
Google Services Coming to Volvo’s Sensus Infotainment System
8 May 2018, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Volvo to integrate Google services in its future Sensus infotainment system, including Google Assistant, Google Play Store and Google Maps
The Android Auto vs Apple CarPlay Reviews Are In (and Kind of Fun to Watch)
27 Jul 2017, 14:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This probably won't be a deciding factor when buying your next car, but it could make the difference between the iPhone 7 and a Samsung purchase
Google Maps Could Feature A Parking Spot Guidance System
12 Aug 2016, 11:49 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / "Ok, Google, I need a parking spot." You might say this some day in the near future, reports claim, as the Google Maps app might soon find open parking spots
BeeLine Uses Google Maps to Show Cyclists the Way
16 Nov 2015, 18:34 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / BeeLine is a modern, digital gadget designed for cyclists that can easily pass as a smart compass. It works using Google Maps and it's quite cheap too
Google Maps Releases Its Offline Features
10 Nov 2015, 16:32 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Being able to use Google Maps even when you don't have an Internet connection could change the way we travel from point A to point B
Hyundai Becomes the First Carmaker to Implement Android Auto
26 May 2015, 15:18 UTC · By: Tudor Rus / Hyundai made the first step towards an improved user-car relationship buy implementing the Android Auto system on the 2015 Sonata
Google Maps Uses Drawn Version of the Bilster Berg Circuit
17 Sep 2013, 16:49 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Good guy Google knows that getting the latest satellite images from every single piece of land on our planet is a quite a bit on the tedious side - especially since most of the Earth's surface ...
Google Street View Cars, a Closer Look Under the Hood
29 Apr 2012, 07:01 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / It’s almost a cliche, but we all know that Google is no longer just a search engine company and the Mountain View giant is now involved in what can very well be considered revolutionary projec...
Google Maps Car Pulled Over by Police: Fail of the Day
2 Dec 2011, 11:16 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Here’s one for you: can you guess the reason for which this Google Maps Toyota Prius has been stopped by the Police? Normally, we’d make a little bit of fun and then tell you, but we hav...
Win a New Citroen DS4 With DS4SEEKERS
14 Jul 2011, 09:54 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The British division of Citroen is currently preparing the launch of a new fun new online and mobile platform competition that uses mapping technologies from Google to create a multi-player game of ...
Nissan Partners with Google for Enhanced Navigation
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / American carmaker Nissan signed a new partnership with search company Google in order to add interoperability between the web-based service Google Maps and its in-car navigation system CARWINGS. Fro...
Google Maps StreetView Shows Porsche Testing Boxster, Cayman
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Getting a spyshot usually takes days, weeks and even months in some cases, with engineers and automakers struggling to avoid paparazzi in order to maintain their models as mysterious as possible. Ho...
How to Get Driving Directions WITHOUT a GPS
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / There’s no secret that GPS devices met an impressive growth in popularity in the last few years, more and more car manufacturers signing major deals with GPS companies for exclusive and high-e...
Google Street View Reaches France
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Mountain View-based company Google has just unveiled the French version of Google Maps Street View, providing full street coverage of six cities, as it follows: Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Lyon, Mar...