Apple Maps is a native app available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch. Its objective is to offer the necessary indications to users to be able to reach a specific destination. It is ideal when you want to visit a city when it is unknown because you are traveling for tourism purposes. But sometimes, you can say that GPS is dangerous, and Apple Maps was. Now… Has this changed over time? We analyze it in this article.
Apple Maps hasn’t always been secure
The features of Apple Maps are known to everyone. An address and the mode of transport to be used are entered. You can indicate that you want to get around by car, bicycle or simply on foot. In this case, the route you must follow along the different roads and streets will be shown. Everything accompanied by the voice of Siri which gives you directions. Keep in mind that at all times the majority of users place all their trust in this device to be able to reach their destination.
But in the beginning Apple Maps was not at all secure, and not all trust could be placed in this system. This is due to the fact that in its first years of running the maps were hardly updated to reality. In this way, despite the fact that for the browser there was a passable road to reach your destination, in reality that can be a precipice that leads to an insured accident. And it is that although it seems something impossible, there are numerous cases of accidents for using Apple Maps in its infancy due to misinformation. This made these tools used as a simple support. But this is something that was quite logical, since at first the Cupertino company was not too good in this regard. And it is that in the comparison between Apple Maps and Google Maps, there was not much difference in the dangers that existed when going by road.
Apple’s browser has evolved
Obviously, these accidents so accused of directly finding a ravine when it was said that there was a road, is something that has remained in the past. Over time, Apple Maps has been improving a lot, to the point that it competes directly with Google Maps. This makes a priori the danger of using Apple Maps has completely disappeared. But equally, you have to keep in mind that you should never fully trust browsers. On certain occasions there is not enough time to update if a street has a prohibited direction or not, or even if there are works on the road. That is why you always have to look at all the signs when entering a street.
Technology is there to be used intelligently. It is not a danger, far from it, to use Apple Maps. But it must always be borne in mind that human decisions should always have priority, not placing all trust in an artificial intelligence.
