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Daryl Baxter

Google Maps adds hazard reports to its CarPlay app — but Android Auto users are left out

CarPlay setup in 2020 Nissan Qashqai.

Google Maps has been updated to support incident reporting through CarPlay, allowing you to quickly add information about an accident or anything else you’ve seen on the roads.

First spotted in the CarPlay subreddit on July 16, the update has seemingly been switched on on Google’s side, meaning that the incident reporting feature is slowly rolling out to all Google Maps CarPlay users. To check if you’ve got the update, there should be a Hazard symbol with an add sign below the speed limit indicator. Pressing this symbol will allow you to report the following:

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