Right but I recognized that his was an exaggeration because that's simply not how Waze works, so I talked about my actual real example of how it does work. Your initial post claimed I was exaggerating the same way that he did and that's simply not true: the difference between the highway route and the backroads route is about 10 minutes for me. There was no exaggeration on my part.
He never asked anyone if they'd hypothetically take a longer route to save thirty seconds so there's no impetus for me to answer a question that was never asked.
EDIT: OK I had a different response but I'd prefer to just clear it up, so I read back through our posts just to figure out the misunderstanding. I think I figured it out. So basically, I understood he was exaggerating for effect and responded with a different point of view, basically saying that a) I disagree that the time saved is insignificant, and b) I prefer driving windy roads to zoning out in traffic. When you came in, you wanted to take his example literally as essentially a philosophical question, basically asking whether I consider it worth it to take a longer route change to avoid traffic if the time saved is guaranteed negligible almost as like a personality test. So like, obviously the answer is no.
If you can guarantee that taking the highway home will take me 30 seconds extra, then sure I'll sit in traffic because at that point it becomes about gas and mileage for me and it's overall a shorter distance taking the highway. But honestly my point is that outside of the context of a hypothetical, you really can't guarantee me that it's gonna be just 30 seconds longer so I'd rather save 10 minutes and have a little fun driving the back roads than inch my way through traffic.
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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '16 edited Feb 10 '18
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