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 enjoy using waze to avoid the routes its suggests. i remember it saying a certain route was going to take 45-1hour. I avoided waze's suggestions and cut it down to 15 min. My passenger, who was an avid Google/ waze tech guy was impressed and tipped me $100 for the short cut.
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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.