Google Maps makes major change that affects all drivers – don’t ignore new alert

GOOGLE Maps has added a caller diagnostic to the app that each motorists request to beryllium alert of.

The level is pursuing successful the footsteps of Waze - which Google besides owns - with a caller signifier of alert that whitethorn travel successful handy.

Google Maps allows users to study a fig of incidents, from roadworthy blocks to accidents, each to assistance others get from A to B smoothly.

Google Maps has agelong had velocity trap alerts to pass radical of speeding hotspots.

But these reports are being replaced by a caller generic constabulary tag that encompasses each beingness of the constabulary connected the road, Android Authority reports.

The "add a report" leafage present shows a constabulary tag higher up, arsenic portion of the overhaul.

So far, users person lone reported seeing the changes connected the mobile app.

There's nary denotation whether it shows up connected Android Auto oregon Apple CarPlay conscionable yet.

Waze - which has had this diagnostic for a portion present - allows radical to study constabulary sightings on their way to assistance amended the driving acquisition of chap users, Google's website says.

The tech elephantine lone precocious added real-time incidental study options to Android Auto having existed connected the mobile app for sometime.

Google acquired Waze successful June for $1.3billion (£1.02billion) and has been dilatory bringing overmuch of the fashionable features determination to Google Maps.

Over the summer, Waze gained caller camera alerts that amusement you the benignant of camera you're approaching, whether it's a velocity camera oregon 1 designed to drawback radical moving reddish lights.