On Wednesday, Google rolled out a bunch of updates to its Maps app that promise to use its Gemini chatbot to make navigating places just a little easier. The big one: You can now converse with Gemini right in the Google Maps app to ask for nearby restaurants, available EV chargers along your route or what have you.

Google Maps knows the routes that you frequent. Especially when you're already on a trip, it knows the roads you will take. Knowing that information, it can now give you proactive notifications about disruptions on the road, including alers about unexpected closures, heavy traffic jams, accidents, and more.

Maps is also using Gemini to get smarter about how it phrases navigation instructions. Expect to get a lot less “turn in 500 feet” and more useful contextual information, like turns based on landmarks you can actually see from where you are.