Explore places from around the world, or use your phone to add new. We believe that these changes have the potential to eliminate 100 million hard-braking events in routes driven with Google Maps each year, so you can rely on Maps to get you from A to B quickly - but also more safely. Create, view, and share Street View imagery with the new Street View app from Google. We’ll automatically recommend that route if the ETA is the same or the difference is minimal. With this update, we’ll take the fastest routes and identify which one is likely to reduce your chances of encountering a hard-braking moment. Here’s how it works: Every time you get directions in Maps, we calculate multiple route options to your destination based on several factors, like how many lanes a road has and how direct a route is.

Soon, Google Maps will reduce your chances of having hard-braking moments along your drive thanks to help from machine learning and navigation information. According to research from experts at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, these hard-braking moments - incidents along a route that cause a driver to sharply decelerate - can be a leading indicator of car crash likelihood. As you approach a busy intersection, the traffic slows suddenly and you have to slam on your brakes.

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