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Google has shepherd a handful of improvements converging to Google Maps including updates to its COVID overlay, takeout ordering features, and real-time crowding tidings for purchasable transport. Parallel them, the convergence says the Google Coadjutant driving mode, which gives you comprisal to features like articulation controls for music while you're driving, is lavation in examination in the US.

The Google Coadjutant driving raceway was first shepherd back-up at Google I/O 2019 and was spotted rolling out on some Android equipment aftermost month. The raceway offers articulation controls for features like roast calls and media playback from inside the Maps navigation screen, so you can comprisal them while keeping your optics on the road. These include being sarcous to roust out new messages from incommensurable messaging apps, retort roast calls, and play media from casework like Spotify, YouTube Music, and Google Podcasts. Google says users will have the perk of enabling the raceway via a pop up in Maps, or else from the Google Coadjutant settings.

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Google Coadjutant driving raceway lets you do things like retort calls from aural the navigation interface.

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Next up are improvements to the COVID-19 overspread for Google Maps which launched back in September. In the converging weeks it's totaliser increasingly tidings to it boundlessness Android and iOS, including divisions uncertainly the commonage of cases detected in total in an area, and links to COVID tidings provided by local authorities. Google says this could help you find tidings uncertainly local rules and regulations back you're travelling.

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The COVID-19 overspread will now give tidings uncertainly the total number of cases in an area.

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There are improvements converging to the tidings Google Maps shows uncertainly how awash purchasable carriage is. Google says Maps can now show you how awash purchasable carriage is in real time, helping you defend a perfectionist unpredictability or bus route if it's going to be difficult to socially distance. It uses feedback from Google Maps users, and will be husbandless on Android and iOS globally. The fondness builds on the predictive crowding tidings Google first started alms aftermost year.

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It will conjointly offer divisions on how awash purchasable carriage is.

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Google Maps is conjointly showing increasingly tidings uncertainly takeout stores from inside the app on iOS and Android, ensuing totaliser the creativity to place stores orders directly aftermost year. It can now show mailing premeditation times, or back a meal is realizable to be picked up from a restaurant. Google says the fondness is rolling out in the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, Brazil and India.

Google says it's plus uncertainly 250 new features to Maps this year since the alpha of the pandemic, with many designed to help persons get effectually in an era of new inflorescence regulations and social distancing. These have included alerts uncertainly face-covering rules on purchasable transport, and warnings to chroniker anticipative to a doctor if you think you have COVID-19.

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