Google Maps can’t explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed

German roads thrown into chaos after Google Maps mislabels highways as closed

German motorists likely felt disheartened at the sight of all the stop signs on Google Maps on Thursday. The Guardian reports that major roads in western, northern, south-western and central parts of the country were shown as closed. Even parts of Belgium and the Netherlands appeared to have ground to...Read Entire Article

A massive error in Google Maps showed German highways closed right at the start of a holiday bridge, causing road chaos and big traffic jams. Google investigates what happened.

Google Maps glitch causes traffic chaos across Germany

Holiday traffic in Germany was severely disrupted on Thursday after Google Maps falsely reported that large sections of the country's road network were closed. The unexpected technical glitch affected navigation across key cities including Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin, as well as numerous highways in the western, northern, central and southwestern regions. Users relying on Google’s app rerouted unnecessarily, choking smaller roads and causing w…

After this week, Google Maps caused in error numerous drivers in Germany to indicate, wrongly, the closure of roads across the country. False closures caused chaos in Germany This error...

The confusion has led to German roads and societies at the beginning of one of the most agglomerated holiday periods of the year, yoi, after Google Maps has rightly indicated that a large part of...

The uproar was such that some did not hesitate to wonder if a terrorist act or even a cyberattack had occurred - What a Google spokesperson said