You can find it in your Google Maps settings on the phone. Poke around, and you’ll see an option “Add Driving Mode shortcut to home screen”. Worked on my last couple of phones, my current one being on Android 7. All they’ve done is make it more awkward to find, but once you find the shortcut, you’re sorted.

Amazing that nobody seems to know about the TomTom Speed Cameras app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomtom.speedcams.android.map&hl=en). Works great for me, and you can either have it full-screen, or as a tiny floating widget (I put it in the lower left corner when using Google Maps for…

Back when I was in school (over 20 years ago now), I did a comparative essay on 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and the original dystopian work that inspired Orwell directly, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We. Eye-opening stuff, full of universal truths that not only reflected the time when each was written, but continue…