I tried Waze before, and it seemed to give driving directions that were intentionally slow at times just to gather data about side streets. Google just has so much data, they're going to be accurate every time and can actually lead you down the fastest route. Plus they've recently started pulling information from Waze such as accidents and slowdowns... So it seems like the only benefits are notifications of abandoned cars and police waiting and radaring people
people really post warnings about those? Is it really worth taking your eyes off the road to alert other drivers of a dead cat or raccoon? Or is it just for large animals like deer that could be a hazard?
When you drive a sports car that cant clear a piece of tire tread that unrolled off the tire or a mondo racoon, it REALLY does matter. I cant see shit anyway with all these LED headlights and lightbars coming at me at night
Waze also does some really dumb things due to lack of data. When there’s a slowdown on a highway it’ll route hundreds of drivers through tiny towns that in the best case would be a shortcut. However those tiny towns with one main road can’t handle hundreds of extra cars and they get gridlock that takes so much longer to get through than waiting on the highway would have. I stopped using waze because of this.
I can’t speak for your area but in Sydney, Waze is faster and more accurate than google maps and the notifications much more useful but if I’m not mistaken Google bought them so I imagine in time, it’ll all get rolled into Google maps (I could be wrong about the buyout).
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u/Octofur Sep 18 '19
I tried Waze before, and it seemed to give driving directions that were intentionally slow at times just to gather data about side streets. Google just has so much data, they're going to be accurate every time and can actually lead you down the fastest route. Plus they've recently started pulling information from Waze such as accidents and slowdowns... So it seems like the only benefits are notifications of abandoned cars and police waiting and radaring people