Using Google Maps on Android Auto. When I have a destination, it shows the speed limit of the current road. But if I don’t have a destination it won’t show the speed limit. It still knows what the speed limit is, but it won’t show it. Is there any way to have it show the speed limit all the time?

  • Rouxibeau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    So, the law says that if you are navigating, the speed must be hidden? Can you share this law? I want to read that absurdity.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      No, that’s not what I said.

      It’s the speed limit that isn’t shown in certain countries. The speed is shown.

      There is obviously not any specific law against showing the speed limit. The legal issue is that the Google’s software for showing the limits is tied in with the speed control software, which is illegal some places.

      Google just haven’t bothered make a custom version of maps for those places.

      Also, they have had technical issues with the speed limit data being so wrong in some places that they rolled back the function shortly after it was implemented.

      I’m sure they hate dealing with this kind of question: https://support.google.com/maps/thread/42045207/how-do-i-prove-that-google-maps-showed-the-incorrect-speed-limit-i-need-to-dispute-a-ticket?hl=en

    • ijeff@lemdro.idMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Also curious about this. Perhaps misunderstood this as being about speed cameras?

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Its the Heisenberg uncertainty principal of driving. Many countries, in an effort to keep our universe from being destroyed, require you to either known your exact location, or an accurate calculation of your speed, but never both