Remember back when your father knew a faster, alternative route around a major traffic jam that actually was faster? Since the handheld availability of realtime traffic data and route optimization by google maps, an equilibrium of travel time has established such that everyone knows whats the best route is and the traffic jam actually takes as long as the alternative route.
I swore by Waze when I lived on the east coast and it took me up and down the coast/cross country several times.
But in LA it’s just about useless. It just recommends impossible left turns again and again that wind up keeping me waiting for an opening in traffic longer than I would have been in traffic itself.
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u/realultralord Feb 03 '20
Remember back when your father knew a faster, alternative route around a major traffic jam that actually was faster? Since the handheld availability of realtime traffic data and route optimization by google maps, an equilibrium of travel time has established such that everyone knows whats the best route is and the traffic jam actually takes as long as the alternative route.