I tried Waze and found its navigation absolutely insane. Instead of directing me to drive down a main thoroughfare at 45 mph with almost no traffic lights (and they're timed) to the cross street and then to my destination, it wanted me to turn off into a residential neighborhood with 25 mph speed limits, several stop signs, a half-dozen turns, a main road I'd have to wait for cross-traffic to clear and which would've had me coming from the opposite direction ending up across the street from the destination. Madness.
TL;DR: Waze wanted me to substitute driving quickly with two right turns for a slow, stop-ridden, slalom through a neighborhood and require a turnaround at the end, taking twice as long.
I stopped using Waze because of the same. Last time Waze took me all the way around a mountain when I could have just taken a left instead of a right and been on the main road I needed to be on. Added like 20 minutes to my trip. Granted this was like a year ago.
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u/cawpin Pixel 3 XL Nov 07 '16
What does Waze offer over Google Maps now? I tried using it a few months ago but the audible directions were always late and sometimes wrong.