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

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

Google is investigating why its mapping service unexpectedly announced that almost all roads in Germany were closed.