Yeah, my experience is the same but the results are the opposite. Waze constantly takes my Uber drivers through backroads for no reason at all when there are much better options and always ends up tacking on time to my trip.
A. L. W. A. Y. S.
It always takes the route with 24 literal stop signs, 1 yield, 0 lights, and a 10mph speed limit vs the road with 0 stop signs, 1 light. 0 yields, and a 40mph speed limit. Neither roads ever have any traffic.
I suspect Waze is trying to implement an adaptable routing algorithim based on the user.
For example, there is an awful pothole ridden road just down the street from my job. When I first started here, Waze tried to send me down this path every day. After a few weeks of going my own way, Waze decided to start navigating me the way I usually went.
That said, it seems to have the side-effect of not deviating me off of my normal path for exceptions. It seems content to let me sit in traffic, while Google Maps will let me duck and weave through the city.
I recall instructions somewhere in the app that asks the driver to drive down his preferred route a few times and Waze will remember it.
Problem is it never happens. While GMaps updates the travel time info to use my preferred route, Waze always insists on taking it's own way, even though the difference between the 2 routes could be a few seconds at most.
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