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I have been surprised Waze has stuck around as long as it has. I stopped using it a number of years ago, but my wife still uses it.
by donatj 4y ago
I have been surprised Waze has stuck around as long as it has. I stopped using it a number of years ago, but my wife still uses it.
- bitshiftfaced 4y agoI only go back to Waze when I need the "plan a drive" feature, where you tell it what time you want to arrive, and it tells you when to leave.
- mfcl 4y agoCan't you do that in Google Maps?
- richiebful1 4y agoThat feature exists in Google Maps, by clicking through the "depart at/arrive by" button
- capableweb 4y agoCan you also just put a destination and it'll show some sort of histogram of when the traffic is the busiest? Basically that + community warnings is the reason I'm 100% using Waze for driving directions. Here is a screenshot of the feature I'm talking about: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/waze-planned-drives-screen-on-ios-english_us.png?w=1500&crop=1 https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/waze-plann... Basically, I know I want to go to A, but I'm not sure when to leave, I just know I want to avoid as much traffic as possible, so when should I leave? The feature kind of answers that.
- r00fus 4y agoNot on mobile (iOS) unless they hid it very effectively. Only on web.
- _rs 4y agoIt’s on mobile and hidden very well behind the 3 dot menu to the top-right of the start/end location fields. Tap the 3 dots and then you can choose “set depart or arrive time” in the menu that opens With that said, I do prefer waze’s graph showing traffic changing over time to help decide when to leave
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- Zigurd 4y agoMy main use case is to "warn me of problems ahead" when I don't need navigation help. For example, it saved my butt when the road ahead iced-over suddenly. I saw numerous accidents ahead and pulled off before I was in trouble or stuck on the road behind a wreck. I passed several scary big truck accident scenes a couple hours later once the road had been sanded.
- samanator 4y agoIn Israel, Waze is the only real choice. Maps is not up to date on construction and changing roads, nor is its real-time traffic system accurate. In the US I solely use maps
- fancyfish 4y agoI have used Waze regularly since 2014, and my perception is that it plans more aggressive routes (trickier turns, using side streets, etc) to shave off a few more minutes than Maps, whereas Maps will stick to the major, less complicated routes. But I haven't used Maps for routing lately, so I wouldn't be surprised if Waze/Maps are more similar than I realize.
- acheron 4y agoI use Waze but that part of it actually bugs me, because it's hard to tell if it's telling me to go on some side route for a real reason (avoiding a big accident) or just because it's guessing it will be 90 seconds faster.
- gav 4y agoI stopped using Waze (I live in Los Angeles) because it would give a slightly faster route with unprotected left turns that was riskier, more stressful, and ultimately not much faster in reality.
- three_seagrass 4y ago>riskier, more stressful, and ultimately not much faster in reality I used to think the same until we A/B tested it a few times (Maps/Waze) with different cars going to the same destination. Waze really was faster very time.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoI like it because I drive a lot on unsealed roads, and Google Maps doesn't want to help me find a fast route that involves gravel, whereas Waze has an option to allow that. Waze doesn't seem to be aware of fords, but then, I wouldn't expect it to be. I also like that I can tell Waze "I ain't afraid of tricky intersections", and that it's happy to take side-roads if it'll get you there slightly faster, which Google Maps prefers not to do.
- yrgulation 4y agoExtremely popular in europe. Shows locations of speed cameras and police checks.
- unixhero 4y agoExtremely popular everywhere
- vforvendettador 4y agoI still use Waze. It has better incident reporting than Google. Also it reports where the cops are.
- suzzer99 4y agoMy girlfriend was completely obsessed with getting the Waze badges for keeping it on while driving. And then she hit the final badge and that was it. She was crushed. Why can't they just keep making more badges?
- aceazzameen 4y agoTell her to make a new account and see how many accounts she can complete.
- robertlagrant 4y agoNG++
- unixhero 4y agoWhy did you stop using it? It is superior
- fbernier 4y agoI am stumped by that person's comment. Waze is superior in every single way for navigation: Faster adjusting to real-time traffic, better navigation UI, more importantly tells you where polices are but also other various things that are good to know beforehand. Google maps is still useful to pre-plan a route, get information about businesses, restaurants, opening hours and just better overall building information with street view and such, but I'd never go back to using maps for navigation unless they do exactly as waze does.
- bsagdiyev 4y agoI've used Waze since first getting a smart phone and continue using it. It got us from California to North Carolina, and does a great job when driving up north or down to Florida. Hopefully this doesn't get affected by this change. I prefer it over Apple Maps or Google Maps.