Google Maps expands motorcycle mode to Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and other Asian markets

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This week, Google Maps unveiled a new motorcycle mode in several Asian markets where two-wheelers are a very popular form of transportation. The new routing mode accounts for travel times on typical motorbike and scooter speeds, offers driving directions for narrow paths and shortcuts that a full-sized car can’t access, and avoids toll roads where they’re not allowed to enter.

navigation using landmarks, not street names

The mode launched first in India last December, a country that recently overtook China as the world’s biggest two-wheeler market. Unlike a typical driving direction that tells you to turn at certain streets, navigation would use the most current street view information to inform directions with landmarks, such as “turn...

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