If Map Apps Were People
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- čas přidán 17. 12. 2023
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Love your channel! Just wondering, will you grow your hair out again? I think it would work well for different roles in skits.
I'm an ISTJ by the way.
So true, Google Maps always waits until the best songs/best parts of the songs to talk over it.😂
Google Maps is literally Satan when traveling like:
*F*#1 YOU GOOGLE MAPS!*
Every. Time.
@@livingandthriving 😂
I always end up forgetting I have it on, and get a mini heart attack when it says I have to turn
@@SugarandSarcasm lol😆
A few years ago there was a new road built in my area where there used to be fields/farmland, and when we first started using that road, Google maps was absolutely freaking out giving random instructions trying to figure out why we were driving our car straight through a field 😂😂
Lol! I've had similar experiences and it is so fun to mess with the GPS. 😂
There's been a couple of times I've driven a new bridge and Google has thought we were floating in the middle of some giant rivers. I swear the voice sounded worried, lmao.
@@WelcomeApathy 😂😂
Try already knowing how to get there, and taking a different route from what the app suggests. I did that a few times and the app started using my route!
@@WelcomeApathy😂
I love how slick the editing is, by showing both Franks in the same shot!
thanks! i really put editor kevin to work this time!
Cool then
@@FrankJamesLove from India❤️❤️
@@FrankJames You mean there aren't 16 different Franks??
@@davidt01 he is covering up the cloning allegations
As a user of Google Maps, this is 110% accurate
Especially the part about talking over your music
I rarely get bad pathfinding from Google, actually. I have it muted all the time, so I can't comment on the voice.
I've gotten to the point where I yell at it to shut up every time it cuts into my vibing, it's seriously grating @@xg6hpyk
This is really so accurate.
Only things missing were Apple Maps telling you to make a U-turn on the freeway. Or to get back on the freeway when you’re right next to your destination. Or telling you you’re at your destination while you’re passing it by on the freeway.
I also know some people who apparently have two of the three open at once so they can simultaneously give different and conflicting directions. 🙃
Google Maps does that nonsense to me. It told me to park on the side of the road and walk the rest of the way…to a Walgreens! Not only was there no shoulder to park on Walgreens has a parking lot!
The last bit is why I figure out the way I like the best so I never have to use maps at all haha
Apple is the worst
My country now has triple decker highways and Google Maps freaks out trying to find out which one I'm on.
Kept passing over my destination on the New Jersey Skyway. Halfway across, bitch kept saying, "You have arrived," each time. No, I fucking didn't! It's down there somewhere, dammit! Had to give up and call a coworker to come lead me there, cuz New Jersey roads suck. I swear they make it extra confusing to get drivers to pay the same tolls multiple times. Jokes on them. I was in my work vehicle doing my job. New York got to pay that bill. 😜
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a fresh inkjet cartridge."
~Mapquest
And a printer which most of us don’t have anymore lol!
This is an underrated comment!
Used to use Mapquest back in the day. Printed off many a page to study my route when on long car trips.
I didn't have the Internet back then, so I was using _MapQuest Eco_ bought from many good high-street shops. 🗺
Of course: In my country it was (And still is) produced by the _Ordnance Survey..._ 🗺🇬🇧😉
Haha, I was dying laughing at Apple Map's British accent, and his posh instructions. It really is in your face at times!
And then it trying to get you to drive on the left!
You can't put *all* of the blame for that on Apple, mind you. Just look at how long it took us to navigate out of the European Union _without_ Apples help! 🇬🇧💨🇪🇺😉
Yes, kids, it's true. We really did print out maps and travel like pirates. And that was an upgrade from the days of buying a giant map at a book store that had been printed before that last wave of infrastructure construction and could never be refolded back into its most compact form. Ahh, the good ol' days when road trips were so much more complicated and frustrating.
Don’t forget the custom AAA TripTik maps - my parents drove us across the US using those, with the highways sections under construction denoted by a AAA employee using a highlighter marker. Good times and good for at least one fight per trip only narrowly avoiding ending your parents marriage over whether or not the family was lost and if you should have stopped to ask directions (mom- yes, dad - no & you have no idea how to read a map).
I used to buy a new atlas each year. Used to only use road signs and the atlas was planning and backup. I was driving back to my duty station in New England from the Florida Panhandle one holiday and missed the I-59 fork, I didn’t realize it until passing the “Tennessee Welcomes You” sign and thought what the hell happened to Georgia? Just me and the logging trucks driving on some 2-lane mountain road linking I-65 & I-24. Fun times.
I'm pretty sure my parents still have some of those from a decade ago XD
Wait you don't still have a mapbook you bought in 2008 in a service station in your car and pull it out when you get fed up of Google maps or are trying to work out where its trying to take you?
There's nothing complicated nor frustrating about that - if you know how to bloody read the road signs!
My favorite is when Google maps announce that it has found a "better" route - whatever that means - and unless I tell it in the next ten seconds that I want to stick with the route that I purposely chose- WHILE I'M FLIPPING DRIVING - it's going to just change my route to this new one it found.
Google maps did that to me last month. Thank goodness that didn't kick in until just after I left a rest stop, because it took me off the highway onto smaller roads going through mile after mile of farmland with no place to stop for the next two hours.
The effort Frank puts into his videos is always epic, especially when you can see the INTJ driver's house when he was talking to mapquest.
The one and ONLY time I used Waze, I had that exact "I told everyone this shortcut" experience. I ended up in bumper to bumper traffic in the middle of a housing development and actually added 30 minutes to my drive than if I'd just gotten on the freeway. Plus, people were giving us all the evil eye for blocking their driveways. It was a nightmare.
The one and ONLY time I used Waze, I was so confused by the convoluted directions - get off this freeway- now travel 200 feet and get back on!- that I went straight in what turned out to be a left turn lane and ran into the side of the car to my right, which was turning left. 😅
That happened to me with WAZE. I took 4 different freeways to my destination in Minneapolis. When I used the Google Map to come back, it was only one freeway back. WAZE also gave me this shrill alarm noise when I drove past a highway construction project. I seriously thought I'd done something horrible to the car- then I checked WAZE. It had been warning me about the construction as I was passing it. Weird.
I still remember Google map sending me on a wild hair ride though a residential area. I finally stopped and studied the map, and realized I actually passed the location 10 minutes prior. The app said nothing.🙄
also when you are lost middle of nowhere.
we sure plucked out our phone.
Google Map replied, "GPS signal lost"
Me : Hey !, i'm the one who is lost not you, yo ! GPS you had whole map with you the whole earth, and still told me that you lost , what the ?!?
yeah my google maps once got stuck on walking routes without my knowledge so i kept getting instructions starting to be told to me literally a second before i had to execute them and random turns into areas that had no through roads.
then there was one instance were it thought a road was there when it really wasn't but there was what seemed to be a crappy dirt road right around there. Turns out it wasn't a road but the edge between two farmers feild so i ended up having to do a 3 point turn to try to mess with the farmers feilds as little as possible
@@leongliyang6946😂😂😂
Don’t blame the map, blame yourself 🤣
Mine loves to tell me to take an exit approximately 10 feet from the exit while I’m doing 80 in the far left lane.
It’s nice that Frank has all these friends to help him out with his skits
Wow, I gotta try Waze when I'm in a really adventurous mood! I loved your slow burn every time Google screwed up. Grandfather MapQuest was hilarious, too! 👏👏👏🤣
Waze won't let you down. Pretty sure the "Mojave Desert" background at 2:53 was originally filmed by th Curiosity rover.
Waze won't let you down. Pretty sure the "Mojave Desert" background at 2:53 was originally filmed by the Curiosity rover.
Waze is actually freakishly good at saving time, but you kind of need a copilot for it. It will ask you to turn streets into rapid successions and you must follow those instructions exactly to save time.
I'd recommend trying the Waze in familiar territory first.
why is the google maps so accurate i swear they inform u too early then too late
And 500x and they tell you all 200 letters from that historic streetname you cannot read on any sign
I love how well this wide variety of characters are played! FJ has got awesome acting skills! So funny 🤣
the directions always come on at the best part of the song. So true, Frank!
The face you make every time Google does anything is priceless.
Me believing MapFrank holding his phone in front of Frank's face and it being in his way just shows how great this channel is. 😂 ❤ It's just like when Tartar Sauce and Steak Sauce hugged.
I've been meaning to complain to Google about that. I once made the mistake of using Google Maps and it was like, "You should have turned there, you missed it. Recalculating... There! You should have turned there, you missed it again. Recalculating... Dang it! You should have turned there..." etc.
As someone who uses Google Maps, I wholeheartedly agree and was WHEEZING after the first part 😂 she sure does love to keep me on my toes.
Maybe it's all the Britbox I've been watching but "in 152 meters turn Sunwise" made me laugh so hard.😂 And I loved Mapquest back in the olden times.😊
A couple of months ago Google Maps offered me time travel. For example, 10 minutes away from my destination, turning right (which in NZ, is more like your turning left) would get me there 12 minutes faster. It lasted for a few weeks, the time differences changed but it made my morning commute more interesting and kept me wondering all day long.
I’m from Costa Rica, we drive a bit aggressively here. Now I’m thinking Waze may be a reason for it because that’s exactly how it is. Take this narrow road, cross the mountain, ask to pass through a neighborhood, now you saved 5 mins which will turn into 15mins of delay because everyone is trying to get out of the narrow road 😂.
Narrow road? Cross mountain? Pass through neighbourhood that _nobody_ realises even exists?... 😳
Somebody at Waze has clearly been stealing notes out of my navigational manual. 🤔
Google maps gets steadily better over the years, especially in rural settings, but I remember one trip on a winding mountain road where for some reason the google woman kept telling telling me to turn left onto non-existent roads. Made worse because there was a steep cliff on the left. Another time it landed me at the back fence of someone's property and insisted I was at my destination, and it wouldn't start over to get me around on the dirt roads to get to the front of the property. Climbing over people's fences and coming up from behind isn't safe in the country.
I stg every maps app needs to learn what a front door is
Google is worse for pedestrians. It frequently tells me to go through walls or just cross a busy street during rush hour (I have screenshots for that), but I absolutely cannot cross the lawn or the parking lot
Ah, the advice to _Pass through walls_ might be my fault. I was beta testing Maps for pedestrians at the same time I was trying out some new protein supplements... 💪💥🧱🏋😉
I liked how Google maps realised about the exit he just missed like one minute ago that could have saved the driver 10 minutes.
The lateness of Google Maps was so on point!
I had no idea there were so many map apps.
I don't drive but the people I ride with use google maps.
Google maps interrupting the music all the time is so accurate! 😅
I'm pretty certain the person who coded Waze Maps is an ESTP lol.
hahahah
what mean ESTP?
@@Clemdauphin Extraversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Perceiving (ESTP) is one of the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types.
@@irienerd8178 i didn't about that 16 type of personalities... but the name is long and the acronyme doesn't help to understand.
@@Clemdauphin se>ti>fe>ni are the Jungian functions of an ESTP
0:37 This video was so funny! (For people who don’t know or want to use the music, the song he uses with google maps is called, “Oblivion” or “NPC Music” :D
google maps keeps telling you where to turn when youre nowhere near the exit but by the time youre near it she stays completely silent smh
as someone who only uses GMap, and is on the bike, I can, 100%, relate to every single frustration portrayed for GMap users. Our love and hate for the GMap lady is just.... complicated...
I feel like I had the best therapy session ever. I have screamed at google maps so many times over everything pointed out here. I thought it was just me. So good to know others see every single thing that drives me crazy. Hilarious!
Same!!! This was just so cathartic. When he did that long stretch of nothing followed by "TURN NOW!", I thought "YES! It's not just me! What the heck, Google?!"
Oh my goodness, Mapquest! I had nearly forgotten!!
Also 2:00 made me nearly cry laughing, that has happened to me toooo many times 😂🤣🤣🤣
Laughed through this as I was thinking of our recent driving trip and how much I love/hate these driving apps!😂 Spot on FJ!!!
Residential neighborhood, here. Recently had approximately 3,572,836 cars pass my house when a light was out at a nearby major intersection. Then, many of them started using our circular drive to turn back. Thanks, Waze!
I really love all of your videos and I can watch them over and over again. Your ideas are truly unique and lovable. I hope you succeed.❤❤
thanks!!
You nailed Waze’s “shortcuts” 😂 also hi
hahaha thanks!
No but for real tho. In my country, the mayor of a small town had to ask to be removed (or something like that) from the app because Waze kept making people pass there as a shortcut but it ended up creating traffic jams and blocking the inhabitants 😅
@@zalhiamiDo you mean a mayor had to to ask the app for the town to be removed from the app?
@@sauce8277 Oh yeah I realise my phrasing was weird, sorry. If I remember correctly he asked for it to be removed as a shortcut, if that makes more sense (english isn't my native langage so I confuse myself sometimes haha)
@@zalhiami Your fine. Thanks.
Always a good time when FJ posts 😊
1:20
I got a notification at this exact time it way amazing
I've never used Apple Maps before but that guy had me rolling! 🤣
I went from Mapquest to Google in real life.
Way too relatable. 😂😅🤦🏽♀️ Google Maps either tells me last minute or with a bunch of time to spare and keeps telling me . . . and I hate when my music keeps getting interrupted! 🤦🏽♀️😂
I’m pretty sure I’ve made some of those same expressions dealing with mapping. The sheer disappointment when the volume goes down so the dumb map gives instructions was hilarious! I don’t like that either.
The 'Google Maps' one is so accurate 🤣 I love it. Good job, Frank~
Also Google Maps:
“There is a 20-minute slower route. All you need to do is turn around and backtrack for 5 miles then turn right.”
Widdershins! Thanks, FJ - now I have to go change my small clothes. I haven't laughed so hard since your last video. Not only are you a CZcams creative genius god, you are now the honorary chairperson of the unofficial "It Pays to Increase Your Word Power" segment of CZcams videos. Happy Festive Season to you and yours!
the relatability for google maps is beyond acurate.
You should do a 16 personality stereotype versus real life video, I think that'd be really interesting
Turns out, there’s no better navigation system than a good old paper map🗺️
good ol GPS navigation helps me better than a paper map
Well, as long as you look at the map beforehand, plan out your route and have someone in the passengers seat to be constantly keeping track of where you’re going. With the downside to that being if you get lost you pull into a parking lot and figure it out for 15 minutes. That always happened at least once when we went on our family vacations back in the late 2000s when I was like 5.
I’m so glad I didn’t have to deal with all that when I first started driving.
Yep, still glad we have GPS.
@JosephineLittel After you'd done it a few times, it became second nature. I used to write out the most important things to remember in huge letters on a sheet of paper and lay it in the passenger seat to glance down at if necessary.
Don't get me wrong, GPS apps are sooo much better like 98% of the time, you just have to be aware that they will occasionally steer you wrong.
Google maps once tried to direct my family off a cliff on a windy road, after taking us to that windy road instead of the straight way to the destination.
You have arrived at your decination the afterlife
My favorite Apple Maps experience was when I asked it to take me to the airport, and I wasn’t specific enough. Instead of taking me to Departures or the parking lot, it took me to the other end of the airfield, with the runways and a tall barbed wire fence between me and the terminal. Good thing I always plan to get to the airport early. My 15-minute delay didn’t help my travel anxiety, but I got to the gate in plenty of time. I now use Google to get to the airport and have the Departures area saved in my favorites.
I remember TomTom asking me to make a sharp right on a bridge.
Google maps once sent me to my sister's new house via her backyard, if you parked in a no parking zone and climbed an embankment.
Omg the face to convey getting more and more pissed off with Google Maps was *chef's kiss* Impeccable
1:43 In 2002 I drove from GA to NJ following this map. It worked out great. No cell phones, no GPS in the car although they both existed already (subscription on GPS external device and you had to download the map before leaving.)
I love this video! my favorite is the Apple Maps with that guy with that mustache
And THIS is why I'm co-pilot for my mom, dealing with Google Maps and its nightmares, and working my own way through the different paths it offers
to me. 😂
Not always efficient, because the damn thing really likes to mess things up, often having us turn three times around a building for us to realize afterwards we could've just made a single turn the opposite way, but we manage pretty well! ✨
Organic maps: Feel free to drive across that yard.
"Google Maps is the BEST"
"True that!"
"DOUBLE TRUE"
As a Google Maps user, you covered everything 😂
Hey, I got a video suggestion, 16 personalities interacting in a video game
good idea!
Omg plz do if airlines were people 🤣
I've used Waze a few times and this is EXTREMELY accurate 🤣🤣
The most important part of using Waze is doing what it says on the first calculation. After that the AI is sentient and bored and starts to screw with you for fun.
I have an old-school garmin gps and it’s still my go-to. It gives clear directions exactly when you need it, doesn’t mute my podcast when it talks, and doesn’t take you on stupid side roads that theoretically save 30 seconds but actually save -30 minutes.
Oh. The Mapquest one hurt.
So accurate! Waze often leads me on scenic “shortcuts” over country roads with hardly any asphalt on them that are probably not intended for regular traffic. Never knew those roads even existed in Germany…
When I use Google maps I always zoom in to find the faster route because it will always take you the longest route possible! 😂
That “hazard ahead” part on Apple Maps was SO accurate. Idk why the alert can’t pop up large for a sec, and then get much smaller so it doesn’t block the navigation that you’re trying to use.
How are these so freaking accurate! Only thing missing is when you accidentally touch a spot on the map that unknowingly adds a stop to your path that Google then proceeds to lead you to. Happened to me a couple of times on the way to work. 🤦♂️
Tried using Google maps to find a bus station once…..never again.
It told me to go the complete opposite way to the bus station and ended up changing its mind MULTIPLE TIMES..! I ended up late to my dentist appointment thanks to that 🙂
I was in the Mojave desert once when Google directed me to a closed up supermarket at the end of an unfinished dirt road.
I used to keep a binder of all my Mapquest printouts so I'd have directions ready if I needed to go back to the same place again. I was happy to pitch that binder once I had GPS on my phone, but I gotta say this skit gave me some Mapquest nostalgia (never thought I'd say that....just shows how good FJ is!).
Thank you so much for referencing MapQuest. I got to relive so many frustrating memories!
Loved this. I am a Google Maps girl but it does irritate me when my music is interrupted and was already told about the turn up ahead about 5 times already! And including poor Mapquest... LOL!
Oh this is a good idea. I'm here for this. Edit: I was not disappointed but rather very appointed. Great job FJ, map apps are comedy itself. So annoying. ...yet so enabling
Sunwise and widdershins lol 😄 love the ''halt!'' and saying you're on the wrong side of the road ''old chap'' lol, google maps with the blank expression and the music lol 😊 …the mapquest bit was quite sweet aww 😅 great editing too! 😊
It all started for me with Mapquest about 20 years ago. It was actually very helpful but you did have to plan ahead. Not all MBTI personalities are good with that. Then I was using Garmin, quite good but without any traffic warnings. These days it is WAZE for me and the part about taking the elite detours is 100% true. Have done so many times, some to my chagrin. It loves residential streets. This is one of your very best videos Frank!
As someone whose Waze has taken them to a random farmhouse as a 'short cut' this is accurate
2:43 Glad to know I'm not the only one who uses the term "long cut" in these situations
Apple Maps is the least frustrating because you just have invest the time to learn how to use it. You learn to put the trip and destination in your calendar app the night before so everything comes up automatically when you get in the car and you scope out the parking situation in Street View before you leave. You learn to put in pit stops so your drive time estimate doesn't get messed up and to set the arrival time as something that accommodates for traffic and pit stops. You learn how to toggle the voice on and off so it only talks during the parts of the trip you need help. And you learn to slow down when a turn's coming up in case it doesn't speak up til you're in the middle of the intersection and should've already made the turn.
That is exactly how I feel about Google Maps!
Perfectly shows the problems with all navigators. My brother is the one with printed mapquest directions. He’s always late. Waze insists that i take a bridge that has a $7 toll to save 2 minutes. Google is always lagging causing me to scream at it “now what???”
I remember loving MapQuest! I still stan you, Old Man!
I like how you can make your nose turn red when you're mad.
Good old Mapquest, my old friend. Glad it made a cameo appearance.
2:47 is the most realteable thing lol
This is very creative and very relatable. Loved it, and you uploaded on my birthday. Now my day is complete. 😊
Happy birthday!
@@holleighlordel1575 thank you!
Happy birthday!!
@FrankJames thank you! The birthday word of the week telling me to stuff my face was a nice touch too. 🙂
Tesla maps: would u like to pay $99 a month for me to check if the roads are closed? LANE DEPARTURE WARNING TAKE CONTROL IMMEDIATELY
The best one is where Google tells you a route will be slower, but you disbelieve it and try it anyway, and then once you disobey it, THEN it tells you that it's actually much quicker. Sometimes i think it basically lies to you to stop you going down backstreets and annoying residents. Its understandable but it just goes to show, you cant really trust it to take you the quickest way all the time.
I always love when I get shown detour options that add close to a half hour to the drive.
I guess they're useful for guys when they're with their wife on their way to the inlaws lol.
Looking like you wish you could pull over & beat up Google Maps at the end 😂
It makes me feel that way too on trips
I don't remember which app I was using but I was warned "There is a speed reader 1 mile up ahead" which I have never heard before and there it was, a cop with speed gun. Like what just happened lol
When I used waze in Ireland it took me down 1 way farm roads in hills, one of the scariest experiences of my life hoping for the best a car doesn’t come flying from the other side
The google maps one is too accurate 😂
OMG I laughed like a maniac! LOLOLOL SO ACCURATE!!!
Google maps always tells thing too late 😂