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It's funny because occasionally my wife will tell me to take a certain route to a destination because that is what her traffic app told her was the fastest rout
by Unbeliever69 10y ago
It's funny because occasionally my wife will tell me to take a certain route to a destination because that is what her traffic app told her was the fastest route. I'll disagree on the basis of this experiment; that the "fastest route" has too many left turns and that my route is better because it has fewer. Needless to say, she is never amused. Maybe after this news I'll be vindicated!
- dx034 10y agoWasn't Waze known to prefer routes that consisted of an incredible amount of left turns and small roads? Haven't checked if they changed the algorithm. Found that Google Maps is hard to beat on their preferred route usually.
- lnanek2 10y agoAt least in NJ, Google Maps typically does a terrible job. When I go from my home to Costco, I take one small road to the highway, take the highway, get off, and take one small road to Costco. It's very fast and easy. Makes a big L on the map, basically. Google Maps ignores the highway and has me make twenty alternating left and right turns on tiny backroads. It's grueling, a lot of work, and you can't even go fast on them. All because Google Maps is trying to cut the diagonal from one end of the L to the other for a shorter distance. In terms of trip duration, it fails horribly, though.
- euyyn 10y agoThat's odd, as Google Maps optimizes on duration, not distance: It takes speed into account. Maybe it's not taking into account how fast can cars make each of the turns?