Informed delivery service from USPS
#17
Re: Informed delivery service from USPS
You don't even need to go as far as entering anything on a gps with google. Just look up an address on your phone to get a map or something, and your phone/google remembers that you have done that before. And if you have location services switched on, it knows where you are at all times and therefore where you have been and makes "helpful" suggestions. Might as well wear an ankle bracelet.
#18
Re: Informed delivery service from USPS
You don't even need to go as far as entering anything on a gps with google. Just look up an address on your phone to get a map or something, and your phone/google remembers that you have done that before. And if you have location services switched on, it knows where you are at all times and therefore where you have been and makes "helpful" suggestions. Might as well wear an ankle bracelet.
#21
Re: Informed delivery service from USPS
It also gave me an estimate of when I would get there, so how far above the speed limit I would need to drive to arrive on time.
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Re: Informed delivery service from USPS
My phone is very good at predicting where I'm going. When I get in my car in the morning, it tells me the travel time to work without ever launching the app (or even unlocking the phone). Same thing when I leave work tells me travel time home.
Big Brother indeed.
#23
Re: Informed delivery service from USPS
This seems to get more accurate as time goes by. I think it learns how you drive and adjusts the arrival time accordingly.
My phone is very good at predicting where I'm going. When I get in my car in the morning, it tells me the travel time to work without ever launching the app ....
My phone is very good at predicting where I'm going. When I get in my car in the morning, it tells me the travel time to work without ever launching the app ....
On shorter journeys with many traffic lights the accuracy is much less and if I can hit a string of green lights I find I can beat a 20 minute prediction by 3-4 minutes .... but a string of red lights has the opposite effect.