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Waze
by unixhero 9y ago
Waze
- gcatalfamo 9y agoGet me a waze _lite_ and I’m sold. But not current waze.
- unixhero 9y agoWade takes me from a to b in any country without effort and faster than any other. Wade it is. Yes the chat function is largely useless the report incident function is cool!
- macintux 9y ago> faster than any other Are you sure? Someone just did an interesting analysis (admittedly, very small data space but a long-term test), found that Waze claims faster routes than they typically achieve. Update: Ah, @dogecoinbase linked to it: https://arturrr.com/2018/02/19/navigation-apps/ https://arturrr.com/2018/02/19/navigation-apps/
- unixhero 9y agoI am here providing an anecdotal story. Zurich Switzerland -> Austrian Alps Heavy traffic, incidents along the road, gridlock ...> Waze got us there FASTEST. "ATTENTION" "WAZE HAS JUST FOUND A FASTER ROUTE". Competed against iPhone & Google Maps. Same way return drive. ... So two data points I guess. Austrian Alps -> Zurich Plus ... I use it daily... So three data points then.
- macintux 9y agoIt's entirely possible you're right, but I don't see how on any individual trip you can assert any solution achieved the best time, unless you have 3 different drivers to take each proposed route (and even then, there's enough variability to make it suspect unless you do it over a long enough period of time).
- dogecoinbase 9y agoWaze: https://arturrr.com/2018/02/19/navigation-apps/ https://arturrr.com/2018/02/19/navigation-apps/ I've experienced something interesting a few times in high-traffic situations (closed highways/etc) where byways produce time estimates which are instantly implausible as many people attempt to take them. It's interesting to think of methods Waze could use to predict optimal paths while accounting for its own effect on traffic.