Zwiebel comments on Google maps is drunk. I'm at the blue dot & wanted to see how long it would take to walk to the red flag and this is the route it suggested.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

Just tried it out and I don't like that they presume to judge whether I should use a car or not. Like sorry I live so close to an Ikea, should I move further away so you sanction me using a car for moving furniture?

Showing the co2 emissions, gas prices etc is cool but making a tool and then enforcing your ideals on how it should be used is a bit too far

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh I hadn't realized it shows CO2. Cool.

What did it do to judge you? Does it give a sad emoji or something?

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[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Just tried it for the 1 hour drive I need to make tomorrow: "no door-to-door itinerary found".

Manually switch to public transport: the same, it then proceeds to try add cycling to the route and gives up when it can't find any routes that include up to 4 hours of cycling. Assuming people are able to spend 4 hours cycling time- or healthwise in itself is completely bonkers, but OK.

Guess there's really no alternative, show me the route by car: it gives me the route while letting me know "cars destroy living conditions in our planet and ruin our cities". Yes too bad, that's why I did my best to find a feasible solution to that problem. Why rubbing this in if you can't even provide me with an alternative?

I'm a left voter, the environment is an important topic for me. But this "high and mighty" shit rubs me the way. It doesn't help and only causes pushback from the public we want and should try to reach. Especially if you just told the user they are shit out of luck if they don't want to take the car.

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[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ha, it actually says that? Yeah having a dumb pop-up is pretty heavy handed. If there was a train as an alternative then I get it. The app seems to be under heavy development. When I first saw it it didn't have much outside of France, now it covers much of Europe... maybe you are outside of what is covered well.

Thats a little disingenuous that it only shows the CO2 impact of the cars.

https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint The above data doesnt consider manufacturing or infrastructure polution for the given mode of transport.

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