Google continues to expand its services, and recently its Google Now service took advantage of a new feature allowing users to never miss their stop transit.
Difficult for some users of public transport not to fall asleep during long trips or sometimes at sensitive zones, a situation that is often enough that Google is interested in closing.
Net giant just updated its Google Now, its personal assistant, to add functionality to schedule notifications to never forget his bus, subway, station, etc.
The user must set the place of departure and place of their arrival on the Android smartphone, select the mode of transportation and they will be guided just fine. If the entry is handled by the application, Google Now then recognizes the path and estimates the time required to connect the input and output of the network. With the approach of the judgment in question, the application launches a notification to the user.
The service is simple and effective, but it does not take advantage of the GPS capabilities of smartphones, only the travel time is estimated and an alarm, that should start too early in case of congestion, delays or other work network.
The idea of Google is to target users with sleepiness in transport networks, but also tourists unaccustomed to public transport or discovering cities.
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