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Originally Posted by extrashaky

Waze is crap. It sent me to the wrong place so many times I just gave up and uninstalled it.

Google Maps selects the best route based on travel time for the current conditions. If it routes people through streets that were not designed for the traffic, that's a failing of the government entity that didn't properly maintain those streets. If the streets really can't handle the traffic, the traffic speed will slow down, Google will detect the change, and Google Maps will route people away from there.

Five years ago Google would often do stupid things. Now it has gotten really, really good. I use it frequently enough to notice the difference.



My dad and brother both do this. They have all these "short cuts" they think cuts minutes and hours off their driving time. Then, when we're moving around in multiple cars, they don't understand how I'm sitting there waiting for them when they arrive. I like to say, "What took so long? Did you take one of your long cuts?"

I drive too much to waste time on delusions.

Since I spend so much time in the US and cell data roaming charges are about the same as the GNP of Denmark I use a stand alone GPS. I spent a little extra for my current unit to have live traffic updates and routes planned based upon that data. I may take a different route every time I am headed to the same destination since it will always direct me the way that traffic is flowing the fastest. What I learned early on was that all of my preconceived "shortcuts" are rarely provided as an option by the GPS. The few times I forced it to use my "shorter" route it always ended up being a couple of minutes slower. It dashed my preconceived notions of decades to little bits.