This is how Gemini is integrated into Google Maps to avoid traffic jams and facilitate useful queries during the summer departure operation.

Google Maps has already integrated Gemini capabilities in Spain, an update with which Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) is activated when using the browsing experience and allows consultations to be made to avoid traffic jams that occur during the summer departure operation during this weekend, among many other options.

This function has been available for a few days in Google Maps, which is now characterized by understand the route spatially thanks to ‘Immersive Navigation’by analyzing real and updated Street View images and aerial photographs, as announced by the technology company in March of this year.

Thus, this new Google Maps experience with Gemini allows you to use natural language to start a conversation with the assistant, which gives a lot of room to make any type of query with just Click on the Gemini icon in the top panelor by using the “Hey Google” command.

As a result, when leaving home with the car, the user can ask questions through a conversation such as whether there has been a traffic jam at a certain point on the roads in Madrid. You can even act as if you were a co-pilot, showing real visual references if the driver is going to take a complicated detour to escape from a hold.

“Pass the current exit and turn right just after the Repsol gas station,” it is one of the answers that Gemini can give now so that the driver avoids a traffic jam.

Gemini’s natural language allows all types of queries related to the status of the roads, not only to know if they are in optimal conditions after the passage of a storm, but by the traffic itself when consulting “How is the traffic on the A-4 leaving Madrid right now?” or “Is there a lot of retention arriving at Despeñaperros?”

Gemini will analyze the state of the road with the information it collects thanks to Immersive Navigation of Google Maps and will respond to the driver with the level of delay and automatically search for faster alternatives.

It is even capable of look for a service area that is not collapsed to have the second coffee in the morning, when asking Gemini “Look for a gas station on the route that has cafeterias with fewer people”, or “Where can I stop to stretch my legs in 50 kilometers in a place that has covered parking or with trees?”

Here, Gemini will consider in the first query the coffee shops available on the route, according to the data it obtains from the establishment’s “Real-time attendance” in its Google listing, and Thanks to Immersive View technology, announced by the technology company in February of this year, and the 3D elevation data will be able to ‘look’ at the orientation of the sun depending on the time of day.

Another Gemini Immersive Navigation experience on Google Maps is perfect for consultation “Is it worth paying the toll or should I avoid the AP-7?”not only because it can calculate the estimated time, but because it will indicate the ‘tradeoffs’ between both routes, so that the driver can decide which one best suits him.

There is another consultation that is conducive to the summer exit operation that will occur this Friday, and It has to do with the choice of lane to take the exitas one of the key improvements to Immersive Navigation.

“Which lane do I have to get into to take the exit to Madridejos?” or “Do I have to change lanes soon for the next exit?” are two questions that are detailed for delicate maneuvers such as crossing several lanes quickly.

What Gemini won’t do is indicate the exact location of mobile radarsas we have verified from Portaltic, since Google’s policy in Spain is limited, in this case, to the users themselves being the ones who notify their presence in the ‘app’ in real time.