> While milking their data with gov backed incentives.

Again, the whole thrust of this article is that people aren't incentivized yet to use or switch navigation apps.

> But it is not.

Yet. If that is something you want, go fund some opensource mapping apps to add the feature.

Without detailed technical information, this seems like a reasonable approach to solve a hard problem that isn't well solved now. Opt-in traffic data collection via an open standard api seems like be best case scenario here.

I'd be interested in specific criticism about how mapping apps are given access to the API, what exact data has to be shared to enable or other specific aspects of this program.

Your knee-jerk reactionary talking points aren't interesting though.