Google Maps recommended "leave at" time: how reliable is this?

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Depending on where you are, Google is surprisingly accurate, or surprisingly inaccurate.

I find Google more accurate in countries that are more 'developed'. Very decent estimates in, say, Germany. Not so much in, say, Kenya.

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Google is surprising close to the estimate. I'm baffled each time I use it!

That being said, google has a pretty hard time estimating red zones. I've had google tell me a traffic spot will take 20 minutes, when it actually took me two hours! This is not normal of course (this was a highway in Brazil), but I still always just look at googles estimate as a whole (E.G. 1hr 50mn), look at the route it wants to take me through, and make my own judgments. I'd probably end up leaving 20 minutes before a google estimate of two hours.

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