Google Maps Calculates Summer Road Trip Tolls

 The online mapping platform and consumer application known as Google Maps is provided by the company Google. It delivers satellite images, aerial photography, panoramic views of streets 360 degrees in all directions, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning.

In addition, Google is all about connecting you with the information you need to make your life better, and so far, Google Maps has been just packed with that type of data. It will warn you about traffic jams, speed traps, road closures, and it can even find the most environmentally friendly route for you to take.

But despite everything that it has been able to tell us, there is one crucial detail that has been left out: tolls. Since a long time ago, we have been able to instruct Maps to choose other routes that do not include tolls; yet, Maps does not provide any information on the potential cost of tolls. Thankfully, that is now about to change, since live pricing for the tolls has just begun.

Google Maps Just Got Better

In the summer of 2017, we first saw signs that Google Maps was working on more precise toll data, but it wasn't until April of this year that the company made an official announcement on the new feature. Although the corporation said at the time that tolls will begin to surface in a relatively short period of time, we have only very lately begun to see them for ourselves.

We started receiving sporadic reports about them last week, and they were more widely available over the course of the weekend. Today, Google gives us a signal that things are truly going broad by publishing a new post that confirms the availability of toll information.

Users in the United States, India, Japan, and Indonesia will be the first to acquire toll data sharing on Google Maps. Google has said that users in more countries will get toll data in the near future, but it has not disclosed which countries those users will be in. Access is also now restricted to Maps on Android and iOS devices; however, we have not yet received any information on the addition of toll data to Maps that are accessible over the web.

There are certain additional constraints that must be taken into consideration. To begin, it seems that Maps will not show you the individual tolls for highways along the route; rather, it will just provide a grand total for the whole journey. If you pay cash, and especially if you drive a truck, trailer, or anything else that has extra axles, you will probably be paying even more than the estimates that Maps provides because it states that its figures are "estimates based on toll pass rates." This sounds like it takes into account discounts similar to those offered by E-ZPass transponder cards.


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