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Adjust the time you are leaving with Google Maps

Adjust the time you are leaving with Google Maps

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Adjust the time you are leaving with Google Maps

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- [Jess] My name is Jess Stratton and welcome to this week's edition of Monday productivity pointers. This week, I'm going to be talking about a new way to get driving directions from Google Maps based on when you're actually going to be driving, which is the really useful part. I'm going to go ahead and point my browser to maps.google.com and I'll start by putting in where I want to go. I'll put in LAX airport and let's get some directions. So I'll click directions. So far, this is mostly normal. I'm going to put in my starting address, which is where I'm leaving from and it's going to tell me how long it's going to take to get there. The red bits are the high-traffic areas. That's fine. Now I know. The problem is, it's during the day and I'm not going there until tonight when the traffic might be much different and this time may not be accurate. In Google Maps, I can click the dropdown next to leave now and it becomes much more useful when I tell Google Maps when I'm actually…

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