Had a very strange experience with Gemini on android auto yesterday. Gave it simple instruction 'navigate to home depot' and the reply was 'ok, navigating to the home depot in x, it the nearest location' The location was twice the distance to the nearest HD. Old assitent never made this mistake - not to mention the lie.

Maybe the old assistant was le classic formal system that could deterministically infer your location and search for nearby locations that matched the query, ranking by distance ? Fortunately we are waaaay past this now, we just words words words words words words words

I had a similar bizarre experience recently where when "Walmart" would be mentioned in an outgoing message, instead of sending the message it would change the nav destination.