Alphabet Inc.’s Google is tweaking its Maps app to highlight environmentally friendlier directions to users’ destinations, the company said. Maps will soon suggest the car route with the lowest carbon footprint, for example, as long as that route takes no longer than other options. The current system defaults to the fastest directions, without regard to carbon emissions. The new model will use information like road type, incline and traffic congestion to… Source link
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