I’ve put a little over 3,000 miles in two months on my used fast wagon. Did it make sense to go with a plug-in hybrid?

Whether you're heading across town or across the country, a navigation app like Google Maps can be essential to easier travel ...

Whether you're exploring a new city or heading out on a summer road trip, Google Maps is one of the best tools you can have ...

Google Maps and Apple’s Maps app offer location-based directories and other tools for finding new places to explore, before ...

The company's long-term best was a Google Assistant-powered driving mode integrated into Google Maps. Photo: Bogdan Popa/autoevolution Google's strategy somehow made sense, despite not being well ...

The whole point of Driving Mode, like the standalone Android Auto ... and making it easily accessible from Google Maps’ navigation screen. It’s the kind of thing that’s incredibly important ...

I know, shocking. Google Assistant Driving Mode from within Google Maps will go away in February. Oh, we’re in February! This feature will disappear this month, likely sooner than later.

However, a year later, Google ditched the home screen, leaving just a minimalistic bar within Maps. Now, even that bar is set to disappear. A new notification within the Driving Mode bar states it ...

Google backtracks on killing off Assistant Driving Mode, but users will still lose access to the app launcher within Maps. Without the app launcher, all that exists of Assistant Driving Mode is a ...

And below them were app shortcuts for Google Maps and any music or podcast app you installed. Just a year after Assistant Driving Mode replaced Auto for phone screens, Google decided to ruin it ...

Google announced the shutdown of Assistant Driving Mode in 2020, replacing it with Android Auto. However, users saw it as a downgrade. Now, Google Maps' Driving Mode is also expected to go away in ...