San Francisco: As part of the many new features Google is experimenting with and adding on Maps, the search engine giant is testing an "Off-route" alert feature, exclusively in India for now. Intended to keep users safe while they are riding in a taxi, the "off-route" feature would notify users everytime their cab gets sidetracked from the intended course by 500 metres, XDA Developers reported on Monday. On sensing a wrong route, the feature would not re-route the driver, but send alerts on the users' phones. For now, it remains unclear if users of Google Maps in other countries are also getting the test "off-route" feature or not. Lately, Google has been updating Maps with a plethora of features including a speedometer and support for showing radar locations.

Source: Mint June 11, 2019 06:22 UTC