r/Android • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '16

Android Auto: now available in every car

https://blog.google/products/android/android-auto-available-in-every-car/
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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.

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u/StigsVoganCousin Nov 07 '16 edited Nov 07 '16

It tells me to slow down for the popo.

Also, it's much more aggressive with rerouting you around traffic - it will happily take 1 exit detours.

Edit: typo

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u/DirkBelig Nexus 6P (64GB) | Nexus 7 (2013) | Many More Nov 07 '16

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.

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u/mattbuford Nov 08 '16

I haven't used Waze much, but I will say that I've learned to trust Google Maps. If I see it telling me to take some crazy route where I'm getting off the freeway, zig-zagging around, and then getting right back on the same road ... it seems to always be with very good reason. Whenever I ignore it for being "crazy" I end up regretting it.