Maps Update Degraded Off-Route Traffic Display
No one has answered my question, so I will share what I've learned with my own investigation.


No, you have to uninstall updates from the manage apps menu selection from the home screen.  I'm currently doing this as a workaround.
I didn't find a way to email google and get an answer, but I did find their forums.  The related question on their forums is at


http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=0d337324bcc86a55&amp;hl=en&amp;fid=0d337324bcc86a550004b349bee9f864

There has been particiption in the discussion from a google employee, which is a good sign.  Also, version 6.0.0 is an improvement of 5.12.0, but still not as good as 5.8.0.