Android Auto speed limit sign recognition?

[MileHighBadlands]

I've searched and not found anything. Since my Android Auto updated a few weeks ago with the added speed limit always on the screen, I've been watching the speed limit icon, and it always changes exactly as I pass a speed limit sign. I assumed this was some sort of AI in connection with Google Street View, but it does not seem to matter where I am, and even in a state park where the speeds change from 25 to 35 very regularly, it changes just as I pass the sign. Today I was going from a 45 mph zone to 55, and a van was right next to me blocking view of the sign. The 45 mph icon did not change to 55 until we passed the next visible 55 mph sign.

Is it possible that Android Auto is using the Broncos camera to identify speed limit signs? My thought would be no, but it seems to work too well to just be part of Google Maps.

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[michelle227]

More likely is an association with GPS as it seems not to recognize temporary changes like construction zones...

 

[Ducati1098]

Is it possible that Android Auto is using the Broncos camera to identify speed limit signs?

No, it’s all GPS based. Bronco camera doesn’t read speed signs.

 

[Smocaine]

Must be nice! The Gmaps speed limit signs around here are wrong more often than not, if they show up at all.

 

[Rydfree]

I've noticed that in a few areas I drove through on my last trip that the speed limit did not change to the lower speed limit posted on the sign. I assumed the signs had been changed recently and the displayed limit was Googles last info. Also the vehicles speed is displayed as 1mph faster than my Bronco gauge and this is also true in both my wife's Mazda and Daughters Toyota.

 

[Tybh88]

Its not the camera. Sheesh.

 

[Pops]

It is a bit of a wonder when the Bronco dash speed limit image changes within 10 yards of a new sign.
Except a few places near me in a National Forest. There, the image never changes from being one wrong limit of 35 mph.

I’d like to see the county database map of speed limits the Bronco GPS uses.

 

[CommoSGT]

Thinking on a grander scheme here.... so I apologize for being wrong.

The android auto app is like every other app, it learns and gathers data. With android auto users it wouldn't be much of a stretch to think that it is benefitting from other vehicles that have driven through the area. Look at the traffic congestion/slowing information that you benefit from on the google systems or the android auto systems.

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