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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.
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So correct me if I’m wrong, but what you are saying is that you and google both know my routes better than I do, and that after testing multiple routes at the same time of day, successfully proving Google’s route is slower, that Google is still the correct way to go?
Additionally, when I mentioned streets not designed for traffic, that has nothing to do with a government entity maintaining roads. It has everything to do with google routing through neighborhoods that were not designed to handle the traffic flow that google maps has thrown at it - also really sucks for the people in those neighborhoods.
I’m glad we agree that Waze is utter shenanigans though, other than the speed trap heads up.
I’ll also caveat that we likely live in very different areas, where traffic patterns, as well as the sheer volume of traffic affects how successful these routing programs are. For instance, where I live, traffic sucks every day, at pretty much all hours of the day, in every direction on basically every road. When I actually lived down town in DC, navigating the city was truly more of an art form than anything else.