Google Maps incorporates new feature that could save thousands of lives

In recent years, we have witnessed the gradual convergence of smart technologies and their users. What's involved is unlocking your phone with biometric data or regularly measuring vital signs with portable electronic components. All this, however, has happened so far at the level of individual users. However, the new feature proposed by Google Maps could be useful to groups of people, even to entire cities.

Google Maps now provides users with useful information in a variety of crisis situations. These include, for example, real-time crisis situations, a map of the affected area, contacts for emergency services, and translations of common expressions in the local language.

Google maps has a crisis navigation system

The latest update extends these security features further. Users will now have a more detailed view of the situation and a crisis navigation system that will point you to safety. For example, this special navigation could save hundreds or even thousands of people during a natural disaster.

For example, if there is a hurricane in your area, Google Maps will automatically send you a warning message a few days before the scheduled disaster. You will also have a forecast trajectory of the storm as well as the approximate time it takes to be near where you are. If you cross the affected area on a stormy day, you will receive a proposal for a safer route.

We will wait in the coming weeks

In case of earthquake, you will see a shock map containing information such as the epicenter and magnitude of shocks or the state of the surrounding areas. The revised version of the SOS Alert will appear in the coming weeks on Android and iOS devices.