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| I made it so far, now I'll go for more  |
I use Waze in my job a lot. Since Google bought Waze the navigation is the same. I find myself going thru all kinds of neighborhoods and taking a million lefts and rights. Is there a setting somewhere to get it to stay on main roads? Bob I am no expert, but think I am sometimes. | ||
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Striker in waiting |
Not that I’m aware. I believe you can only set it to AVOID highways. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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| I made it so far, now I'll go for more |
That’s what I see as well. Google messed up a good thing. Bob I am no expert, but think I am sometimes. | |||
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Waze's whole purpose is "social network driving." I don't use it as much as I used to, but I recall Waze informing me of traffic problems and re-routing me around them. That was the selling point for me. The "social networking" part of it now seems to have fallen into the background. For example, last night I went to meet my family at a restaurant we had not been to before, and Waze started issuing alerts about "police reported ahead." Looking at the display, you would have thought half the force was on site. When I got there, not a sign of police, an accident, or any event that would have called for these alerts. You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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For real? |
Do you have it set on shortest route? Mine would do that to me so I set it to fastest route and it keeps me on the interstate Not minority enough! | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I find myself barely using Waze anymore, only if I know there is going to be crazy traffic. Seems like Google Maps works better these days. Forbes seems to think Google is going to gut and kill Waze someday:
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| You can't go home again  |
Yeah, check your settings. It will give you some weird routes based on other users input at times but it sounds like it may be set to avoid highways or avoid tolls or shortest distance. Also, another thing that I often do is reroute a few times along my way. It will often update the time and give me other options than when I started out. Sometimes it will send you some weird way to save 1 minute. When it does that I just ignore it. It's by no means perfect. As an aside, it also uses a ton of data. --------------------------------------- Life Member NRA “If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve." - Lao Tzu | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
This makes total sense, and is why Google bought Waze. Why would they want to support two apps that are supposed to do the same thing. Combine the best of both of them and move along. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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paradox in a box |
That’s simply because multiple people reported the police at slightly different spots. Could have been a speed trap that the cop moved along. It happens once in a while. The app has saved me from enough speed traps that I don’t mind. These go to eleven. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
I've even heard that the police themselves will click these alerts on Waze in order to get people to slow the hell down in a particular area. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
I tried Waze, at the insistence of all my family, in Europe last year. It was just "meh" for me. I went back to Apple Maps. I didn't care about the speed traps, because I don't speed excessively in the first place. Apple Maps gave me navigation info on my Apple Watch. Waze did not. Neither one of them nailed all the road closures, etc. The fact Google owned Waze gave me another reason to shun it. The fact Google's doing an acquire-and-kill comes as no surprise. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
It is the difference in settings between Fastest and Shortest routes. Waze will only take you off the main roads if you want to get somewhere more quickly. If you don't mind a slower route with more traffic, you want to set it to use the Shortest route No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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| I made it so far, now I'll go for more |
You guys mention. settings. Well, I see nothing in my settings that will allow me to choose the route preference. Bob I am no expert, but think I am sometimes. | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
I can confirm from personal experience that this is the case. Driving from Pittsburgh to DC a few years ago, PA Turnpike, I was getting "police ahead" alerts every 5-10 miles, with no police presence when I got there. Waze was showing the same user icon for each alert. This continued for about 60 miles, and the alerts stopped once I passed a PA state trooper parked on the shoulder, in a place where I thought he might be running radar (no alert issued in that locale). | |||
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| paradox in a box |
True. There is a tough intersection I drove daily that always had police warnings and no police. These go to eleven. | |||
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| Striker in waiting |
Just saw a headline that Waze is bringing back the Cookie Monster voice, so they have that in their favor... As for false police locations, I figure they're either old and nobody has bothered to remove them (by giving thumbs down) or cops drive around certain spots periodically w/ waze open and make false reports as a sort of informal traffic calming effort. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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