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Not far from where I live, there's a traffic light that regularly backs up, especially the left turn lane. The navigation apps started suggesting a shortcut aro
by cratermoon 3y ago
Not far from where I live, there's a traffic light that regularly backs up, especially the left turn lane. The navigation apps started suggesting a shortcut around that light that involved a left turn cutting through a neighborhood on a gravel street and arriving at very busy street with poor sight lines and just a stop sign. Eventually the city put up plastic bollards to block the left turn.
- CamperBob2 3y agoUPS figured out decades ago that left turns in urban settings are usually suboptimal. Why don't nav applications allow drivers to avoid left turns except at intersections with left arrows?
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- MarioMan 3y agoWaze supports this situation and more via the “Reduce difficult intersections” toggle: https://support.google.com/waze/answer/7666303 https://support.google.com/waze/answer/7666303 It’s apparently used to apply an additional routing penalty for “difficult intersections”, assigned by map editors, which provides a robust way to avoid these situations, including difficult left turns: https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/ffypgb/avoid_difficult_turns/fk2n1jg/ https://www.reddit.com/r/waze/comments/ffypgb/avoid_difficul...