The Google Maps driving mode, originally powered by Google Assistant and now baked into the navigation app, failed to become the game-changing feature that Google hoped.

It's time for Google Maps to add co-driving While Google Maps offers several tips and tricks that improve the experience, adding a co-driving mode would improve the navigation service.

Google reached out to the folks at 9to5Google to explain that Assistant Driving Mode wasn't actually dying — it was just losing any of the functionality that matters.

Evidence suggests that Google will kill Driving Mode in Google Maps for Android. The functionality could be dropped very soon.

Earlier this month, Google announced it was deprecating a slew of Assistant features. One of those removals was the “App Launcher” in Assistant Driving Mode, which most people assumed was the ...