The stories that could be told about those taxi route departures in order to do a few extra kilometers and charge the tourist. Google Maps will now notify you if the taxi you are in he gets off his route suspiciously.
These are the characteristics that we usually like more of those apps that they have invaded our professional life as private And if one is cautious while having Google Maps open when riding in a taxi to check if it is on the most appropriate route, now the app will help you not to look so hard at the screen and warn you if there is a suspicious route modification.
Don't be overcharged
That is, we put Google Maps, mark the route and From time to time we are looking at the app to check if the route is adequate. We can save ourselves by looking, since Google Maps will check in the background to notify us if the taxi driver is taking another itinerary. The only thing that this feature we have to activate so that it is in operation.
Maps has been processed in such a way, as with this novelty of following business, that we will see a label at the top of the app in which we are notified that we will be alerted if the driver you leave the route in 500 meters. If this distance has been adjusted, it is due to possible personal adjustments or driving preferences, or simply to avoid traffic on the route.
That is, there is half a kilometer of margin with which the app will play so as not to warn you that the driver is playing it and wants to charge you more. We have to say that this function is available in India and is being opened to more countries. Let's explain how to activate it so that when available in these parts, do not delay in using it when you ride a taxi to any country you are going to visit.
How to make Google Maps notify you of a route change
It is not for thinking badly of a guild, but for have in our hands a great tool to make sure we pay for the trip we are making. Thanks to technology we can make use of it and thus ensure that in a country like India, in the first one where it has been activated and for something it will be, it must be a very recurring norm to take a volt through the city and thus get a little more of money from customers who don't know the site.
Go for it:
- We go to Google Maps.
- We put an address as the destination.
- The map will open with the route and below we will have the typical “Start” buttons and steps. If we have the option active, we will see another button with the shield sign that says "Safer".
- Click on that button and we will see two options to choose from: one is “share the trip with friends” and the other is "receive out of route alerts".
- We choose the second and Google Maps will notify us at that time when the taxi leaves of your route through a notification so that we can open the app and see what happens.
This way we can communicate with the driver warning that you are taking another route or making the decision that we want to just stop the taxi, pay and find another one that does not want to scam us. It has been the great G that has mentioned that this new function is available in India aimed at helping users in that country, but it seems that it is not bad that we can have it in these parts and around the world.
You know how to make Google Maps notify you if your taxi goes off the road and wants to get extra euros to your account. A simple way to make sure that our trip goes like silk wherever we go.
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