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I simply hate it when Waze navigates me through a dozen small streets I'm not familiar with, just to save one minute vs. taking a main road. The multiple sugges
by danra 10y ago
I simply hate it when Waze navigates me through a dozen small streets I'm not familiar with, just to save one minute vs. taking a main road. The multiple suggested routes often don't mitigate this enough.
Wish for a feature to turn a preference for main roads in general.
- osi 10y agoor, the overall improvement for a "shortcut" needs to be a reasonable percentage of the time spent on a trip.
- tbyehl 10y agoIME, Waze's journeys down non-primary roads probably aren't making my driving experience less frustrating and probably don't save any time. Invariably it sends me down a series of side streets with stops signs and dumps me back at a busy primary road where I have to make a left across traffic without the aid of a signal. If I was "up" any time by then I'll probably give it all back and then some waiting to make that final turn of Wave's goofy detour.
- danielweber 10y ago"Left turn onto main thoroughfare with no signal." I've encountered this twice from Google Maps. I wouldn't want this even if it was saving me a few minutes.
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoEven a right onto a main thoroughfare isn't worth saving a few minutes. Re-joining the main flow of traffic is stressful and dangerous.
- RichardCA 10y agoTo me this is the heart of the matter. Waze knows people dislike this but they can't seem to find a way to place that behavior under the user's control. Most of us would be happy to stick to "arterial" streets even if it costs us a few more minutes of drive time.
- tanker 10y agoYour comment made me think about how Waze could direct many people on slightly sub-optimal routes to clear the main routes for some class of premium users.