Waze seems to show few if any shortcuts anymore, until I manually start to take the route. Then the ETA drops by a couple minutes as it re-routes. Don't know if

Waze seems to show few if any shortcuts anymore, until I manually start to take the route. Then the ETA drops by a couple minutes as it re-routes. Don't know if that's in response to complaints, but the shortcuts it continues to offer are usually through low-income areas. People who would be perhaps less likely to complain. /conspiracy theory over When services reach critical mass, they don't need to offer the same value proposition. Only value Waze has left for me is police awareness, but even that has been mostly thwarted by changing police patterns. They rarely camp out in one place anymore and instead operate more like stings -- pull over and nab a speeder in 20-30 seconds.