So I’ve noticed that Google maps always adds walking time into public transport routes, but never accounts for parking and walking when driving.
I like it feel like this gives the impression that public transport is slower, when 9/10 driving with friends we waste a ton of time parking and walking.
If Google maps and Waze showed parking and walking estimates, it would level the playing field and possibly have a dramatic effect on public transport usage.
Sounds like too much for requiring them to do. How would they know that?
Much bigger for me is Google Maps still does not do a good enough job. I had to go to county’s jury duty & spent a long time trying figure-out the best route, using the rail service. County constantly doing construction & signs BS: let alone the public transportation website is a joke- trip planner failed to work, for days, & no mention if can use only change.
Even arguing with my mentally compromised roommate that used the same rail station to pick-up the visitors that stayed with us, because Google Maps map did not have all the route, even in PIC form. Of course the difference was that Google Maps did not show, say or PICs of one-road become an other road. If that was not bad enough both Google Maps & my roommate’s directions did not have that you must drive towards other areas on the expressway to get to the US1 direction, next to rail station. One of the visitors said, the whole rail system definitely accepts change only, which made me happier had tons of change, but I planned for having to use paper money.
The same way they do driving estimates. They have your phone’s location, and they know where you are trying to go. They could have the trip “end” when your location is actually inside the place you are trying to get to, instead of ending the trip when you pass your destination at full driving speed when you dont see a parking spot out front.
They collect so much data, it would be trivial. If you are going from your house to a Starbucks, they could absolutely just have the “end” condition be when your phone notices the Starbucks wifi.
P.s., not that I think they should be collecting that data, but the reality is that they are