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re: the little airplane slider in google now..does that really work?
Posted on 7/8/14 at 2:57 pm to wheelr
Posted on 7/8/14 at 2:57 pm to wheelr
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Another feature concerning flights I just noticed. Look at the airport on Maps and it will show your departure/arrival time.
when i think back only 5-10 years ago..and trying to find out if a flight was on-time..and getting a busy signal trying to call the airline or airport..and where we are today..wow.
i remember the panic in getting to a large airport and looking at all the different screens trying to locate the correct 'incoming' flights ..the correct airline's listing...and figuring out gate numbers, etc.
its kinda how i felt about traffic jams a few years ago. i didnt see how it would ever be possible without an extensive network of cameras, speed radars and satellites to ever predict a traffic jam before you got there.
i would have NEVER thought like waze and crowd-sourced a solution FAR AND AWAY more simple & effective than a $$$ intrastructure overhaul...just turn a GPS app on everyone's phone into a game.
fricking genius. now not only do i know before i leave my office wtf is going on with interstates..but more than likely i also know on backroads way ahead of time too thanks to the fact other people already STUCK are turning waze on to see wtf is going on, hence i'm warned and i'm not even there yet. ..oh and they let me know the cops are out too.
the things we take for granted....
This post was edited on 7/8/14 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 7/8/14 at 3:22 pm to CAD703X
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i remember the panic in getting to a large airport and looking at all the different screens trying to locate the correct 'incoming' flights ..the correct airline's listing...and figuring out gate numbers, etc.
Yeah, now we can get up to the second updates automatically pushed to our phones, right there on the lock screen for us.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 3:26 pm to CAD703X
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i would have NEVER thought like waze and crowd-sourced a solution FAR AND AWAY more simple & effective than a $$$ intrastructure overhaul...just turn a GPS app on everyone's phone into a game.
fricking genius.
I will never get over the genius behind the way Google made their voice recognition and speech to text so good... they just operated a free 411 service for a few years.
And now they have people walking around playing Ingress to help them map out better walking directions.
Posted on 7/8/14 at 3:39 pm to CAD703X
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i would have NEVER thought like waze and crowd-sourced a solution FAR AND AWAY more simple & effective than a $$$ intrastructure overhaul...just turn a GPS app on everyone's phone into a game.
fricking genius. now not only do i know before i leave my office wtf is going on with interstates..but more than likely i also know on backroads way ahead of time too thanks to the fact other people already STUCK are turning waze on to see wtf is going on, hence i'm warned and i'm not even there yet. ..oh and they let me know the cops are out too.
Cool, but none of that has anything to do with Waze.
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