Google Maps is expanding the Immersive View format it revealed last year to an important part of the app: routes. When you look for directions in Google Maps on iOS and Android in select cities ...

Google Maps is going to introduce a new "Immersive View for Routes" feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference.

For years, Google has leveraged our unwillingness to change defaults to harvest our data. Now, it is leveraging these tendencies to prioritize the environment.

Google Maps is getting a new Immersive View for routes that uses artificial intelligence, Street View, and aerial images to preview every step of a journey ahead of time.