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Definitely. I was using Waze just the other day on a trip with my wife down to Los Angeles. Fortunately, I was the passenger and guiding my wife through traff
by mililani 13y ago
Definitely. I was using Waze just the other day on a trip with my wife down to Los Angeles. Fortunately, I was the passenger and guiding my wife through traffic. Two things struck me about Waze:
1) It requires a lot of attention to use.
2) It's not that accurate. I mean, I figured it would be collecting data from Waze users and marking the roads with heavy traffic. But, that wasn't really the case. It DID mark some roads with traffic, but it wasn't accurate at all. Most of the accuracy came from people self reporting traffic data, and that was a cumbersome task. I don't recommend people doing it while driving.
- mikeash 13y agoWhat about it requires a lot of attention to use? I use it daily and it's set-and-forget for the most part.
- mililani 13y agoAre you serious? You don't think fumbling around trying to tell people where hazards, traffic, police, bla blah is an attention getting process? What about the whole reward nonsense like giving people the thumbs up. Or, what about when you're warned of a hazard and then asked to verify if it's still there or not. I honestly can't see how a driver can do all that and not have their attention to the road/driving impeded.
- lttlrck 13y agoExactly. If Google jerk up Maps on IOS with that noise I'll be back to Apple Maps in no time.
- mikeash 13y agoYou don't actually have to do any of that to use the app.
- rdouble 13y agoA lot of other people need to be doing it, though. Without the crowdsourced info there's no point in using it instead of Google Maps.
- mikeash 13y agoThe only thing in that list that really needs to be done is reporting hazards and traffic and such, and you only need to do that a very small amount of the time. You don't need to give thumbs ups or verify hazards or anything like that, and you only really need to report hazards a small percentage of the time.