Drivers can now send Google Maps to their car's navigation system on select Ford and GM vehicles -- rather than printing paper directions.
Google, which started the send-to-car program more than three years ago, announced its latest partnerships with the two Michigan automakers today.
The Internet giant claims it's safer than reading direction from a piece of paper -- and better for the environment.
"Instead of going online to calculate a route and print it out, which looking at can be a distraction in the car, that address is simply sent to your car and you download the directions to it once you jump in your car to leave on the trip," Ford spokesman Alan Hall said in an e-mail to The Detroit News. "This isn't a replacement for our navigation system. It's an enhancement."
The feature is now available in more than 15 brands in the U.S.
