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Blaming Waze is blaming information, because that's all Waze can provide. I'm sure it plays well with his constituency, though.

jusben1369 12y ago
I think blaming Waze is blaming an imbalance in the system. One side of the equation has leapt ahead of the other via technology and now there's an imbalance. Technology tends to take fairly steady state systems in equilibrium and turn them on their head for awhile.
scelerat 12y ago
Waze is more than information. It provides directions to drivers, with the promise of speeding a commute. It appeals directly to people in a hurry, and it directs them through residential neighborhoods not designed for through traffic. A reasonable hypothesis would be that greater Waze use would correlate to higher numbers of accidents in residential neighborhoods.
- RickHull 12y ago
  > Waze is more than information. Nope. In this respect (transportation routes), it is quite literally and merely information. It does not make promises.
  - scelerat 12y ago
    Waze has synthesized voice instructions to "turn left at Oak Glen Circle." I call that "direction." You call it "information." Potayto, Potahto? Also, "promise," meaning indicative of potential.
    - spacemanmatt 12y ago
      All are functions of the information. Take away the information, and all those things go with it.
- spacemanmatt 12y ago
  Waze is a consumer DSS (decision support system) and as such delivers valuable, decision-affecting information. But it is limited to information. Directions to drivers, promise of speeding a commute, appeal to people in a hurry, directions through residential neighborhoods: All data.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Waze is more than information. It provides directions to drivers, with the promise of speeding a commute. That is no more than information. That is exactly information -- information about the most efficient route from one's location to one's destination. So, yes, blaming Waze is blaming information. If there is blame to be assigned for residential roads being part of the most efficient route between two points that are outside of those roads locale, it belongs to those responsible for the design of the road system, not to the app providing information about the results of that design in the current traffic environment.

jusben1369 12y ago

I think blaming Waze is blaming an imbalance in the system. One side of the equation has leapt ahead of the other via technology and now there's an imbalance. Technology tends to take fairly steady state systems in equilibrium and turn them on their head for awhile.

scelerat 12y ago

Waze is more than information. It provides directions to drivers, with the promise of speeding a commute. It appeals directly to people in a hurry, and it directs them through residential neighborhoods not designed for through traffic. A reasonable hypothesis would be that greater Waze use would correlate to higher numbers of accidents in residential neighborhoods.

RickHull 12y ago
> Waze is more than information. Nope. In this respect (transportation routes), it is quite literally and merely information. It does not make promises.
- scelerat 12y ago
  Waze has synthesized voice instructions to "turn left at Oak Glen Circle." I call that "direction." You call it "information." Potayto, Potahto? Also, "promise," meaning indicative of potential.
  - spacemanmatt 12y ago
    All are functions of the information. Take away the information, and all those things go with it.
spacemanmatt 12y ago
Waze is a consumer DSS (decision support system) and as such delivers valuable, decision-affecting information. But it is limited to information. Directions to drivers, promise of speeding a commute, appeal to people in a hurry, directions through residential neighborhoods: All data.
dragonwriter 12y ago
> Waze is more than information. It provides directions to drivers, with the promise of speeding a commute. That is no more than information. That is exactly information -- information about the most efficient route from one's location to one's destination. So, yes, blaming Waze is blaming information. If there is blame to be assigned for residential roads being part of the most efficient route between two points that are outside of those roads locale, it belongs to those responsible for the design of the road system, not to the app providing information about the results of that design in the current traffic environment.