These AI-powered capabilities handle India’s unique mobility difficulties, such as navigating tight streets and flyovers, finding EV charging stations, and booking metro tickets.

Google Maps has launched a series of unique features designed exclusively for Indian users, with the goal of improving the efficiency and sustainability of cross-country journeys.

These improvements, backed by artificial intelligence and local partnerships, solve India’s specific mobility difficulties, such as navigating tight roads and flyovers, finding EV charging stations, and purchasing metro tickets.

One of the most notable features is the AI-powered navigation tool, which helps four-wheeler drivers avoid small or busy highways. Navigating such roads in new surroundings might be very difficult.

This new technology assesses road widths using satellite images, Street View, and other data points, allowing drivers to avoid narrow roads without considerably extending their journey time.

This functionality is now being implemented in eight cities: Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Indore, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, and Guwahati, with plans for future development.

Many Indian cities have flyovers, which can mislead drivers who are unfamiliar with the area. To remedy this, Google Maps now adds a feature that indicates flyovers on recommended routes, allowing drivers to anticipate and plan for these higher roadways. This feature is accessible in 40 cities around India for both four-wheelers and two-wheelers.

In response to the rapid use of electric vehicles (EVs) in India, Google Maps has collaborated with top EV charging providers to give detailed information on over 8,000 charging stations.

Users can view full information on plug kinds, real-time availability, and filter results by charger type. Notably, this is the first time Google Maps has incorporated EV charging stations for two-wheelers, allowing for a wider spectrum of EV users.

Google Maps has partnered with ONDC and Namma Yatri to facilitate metro ticket bookings in Kochi and Chennai. Users can now order metro tickets directly from Google Maps, streamlining the public transportation experience and removing the need to stand in queue at stations.

Google Maps has also improved its incident reporting feature, making it easier for users to report roadside occurrences like construction or traffic accidents.

Users can easily report events and corroborate reports from others, boosting the credibility of user-generated data. This update is available for all platforms, including Android, iOS, Android Auto, and Apple CarPlay.

Google Maps now includes curated lists from local experts and the community, allowing users to create, share, and collaborate on lists of their favorite sites.