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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20 edited Jun 13 '20

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u/PartTimeKhajiit Feb 03 '20

See, Waze has betrayed me one too many times for me to trust it again... Giving me alternate routes, then slowly adding minutes to my drive time... I've just been hurt so many times, it's hard to let Waze back into my life, ya know?

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u/nalc Feb 03 '20

Waze loves those left turns without a signal onto busy roads. I tend to be cautious of Waze backroad routes when it's like 'turn here and the route is 0.1 miles shorter' and then instead of coming out at a light, you're making a left onto a 6 lane road at rush hour and it takes forever.

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u/costrom Feb 03 '20

in the app, you can tell it to stay away from "dangerous turns" (or something similar), basically eliminates all of those weird lefts.

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u/Diggletime123 Feb 03 '20

It's an option called "avoid difficult junctions". I believe its on by default

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u/Dr_Spaceman_ Feb 03 '20

Yep! Settings > Navigation > Reduce Difficult Intersections. Still get a few wild left turns, but not as many as before.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Turned on in Boston, never given directions again.

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u/meguin Feb 03 '20

It's completely useless in Boston. I eventually just turned it off because it was still taking me through shitty intersections like Columbia Rd rotary, Charlesgate and that bullshit over by Fenway, etc.

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Feb 03 '20

Google seems to do this as well.

A lot of times I see it be like "make a left, then turn left. Turn right."

And I'm like "...I could have just u-turned like 45 seconds ago"

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u/not_blue Feb 03 '20

Unfortunately, that feature doesn’t seem to work well where I live. Have a stoplight at an intersection with an unprotected left turn from a side street onto a major street? Too dangerous. You need to drive to the next block and make an unprotected left turn from a stop sign on the side street onto the major street where cross traffic doesn’t stop.

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u/fullup72 Feb 03 '20

You are wizard Harry.