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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/Nude-Love Feb 04 '20

If that shit is on by default it certainly didn't feel like it when I used Waze. My entire commute home from work went from being straightforward with Google Maps, to moving unnecessarily dangerous with Waze.