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Google Maps can now navigate inside tunnels

Waze already has improved location tracking in tunnels.

Sometimes GPS will remember you’re on a road traveling through a tunnel and maintain the directions it was giving you when you went in, and sometimes it will go utterly stupid and remind you to proceed to the route as it shows your car happily driving through a river, a trainyard, or a series of residential homes. A new feature spotted by SmartDroid allows the Android version of the app to use Bluetooth beacons to track your location in areas where GPS signals typically can’t reach. Then, scroll down to the bottom of the page, toggle on Bluetooth tunnel beacons, and select Allow when Google Maps asks for permission to enable it.

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