Screen brightness problem iphone 5 ios 6.1.4

The screen will quasi-randomly go to low brightness and be barely readable - auto-dim or not. I can't usually tell what triggered it - it's just not obvious.
However, I found a repeatable pattern (finally) when using it in a car. If I plug in the usb in a car (say a ford), and use both google maps and play tunes or podcasts simultaneously, the brightness is guaranteed to dim after approximately 20 minutes, on its own, without intervention. The auto-brightness switch has no apparent effect on this.
This is, of course, the most annoying defect, because you're using google maps to watch where the f*@k you're going, and then the lights go out and you're fumbling around with brightness while driving.
Anybody else observe this problem?

It's a google maps app setting. I agree, it is highly annoying and I have no idea why they put that setting into the app without the option to change it. I did a 600 mile trip with google maps and the auto screen dimming feature was awful.

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--> When the Brightness is set to Automatic mode & take out from dark location to bright location the display turns out to weird grey color.
--> And then if the brightness is set to low, medium or high display comes to normal.
Is this issue related to the hardware or software.
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Same here i have white 1520
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