Google has made killing off products a bizarre hobby, and even the products people love the most sometimes have the same fate. Since we're here to talk about the experience behind the wheel, the best ...

Google is no stranger to discontinued tech. But the phasing out of Google Maps Driving Mode took many by surprise. You know that little black bar at the bottom of Google Maps on Android? Perhaps ...

Google could be planning to kill Driving Mode in Google Maps in early 2024, according to an APK teardown. The teardown suggests that you might need to use Google Assistant for your driving needs ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

The Google Maps driving mode, originally powered by Google Assistant and now baked into the navigation app, failed to become the game-changing feature that Google hoped. The demise of Android Auto for ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Earlier this month, Google announced it was deprecating a slew of Assistant features. One of those removals was the “App Launcher” in Assistant Driving Mode, which most people assumed was the entire ...

Not to humblebrag—okay, maybe just a little—but I first rode in a Google self-driving car in 2013, back when hardly anyone had. The opportunity came as I was researching a Time magazine cover story ...