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It is learnt that the driver was using Google Maps to reach the destination.
The city circular services in Thiruvananthapuram have been added on a trial basis.
Their trust on Google Maps has now held up traffic after one of the heavy vehicles overturned at seventh curve and the other got stuck.
The cleaner of the vehicle, Subran, died in the accident.
The family was finally saved by a team of the Fire & Rescue Services Department after a strenuous rescue operation.
Starting with identifying the route of travel, GPS-based maps can aid in varied situations like finding the whereabouts of a vehicle to recovering lost children through features like GPS Tracker and GPS Locator.
Earlier this week, Google also rolled out the "Stay Safer" feature in India that would alert Android users travelling in public vehicles if their drivers deviate more than 0.5 km from the suggested route on Maps.
Called "Stay Safer", the India-first feature was rolled out from Wednesday that would alert Android users travelling in public vehicles like taxis or auto rickshaws if their drivers deviate more than 0.5 km from the suggested route on Google Maps.
As part of the new additions, the speed limit would appear in the bottom corner of Maps and the speed traps would show up as icons on the roads.
Google has been fending off some of the growing legislative and regulatory pushes in the United States and elsewhere to regulate data privacy and other issues core to its business model.