02-01-2020, 09:53 PM
I know Google will eventually make it unusable, but I've been highly dependent on Waze for several years. Having real time crowd-sourced info is crucial.
Many years ago we were at a travel sports event in a busy city. So about 20 families with separate rental cars navigating to the same hotels, fields and restaurants. Someone suggested using Waze, and it was the first time I'd ever heard of it. A handful of us downloaded it and gave it a shot. The very first trip back to a hotel took us on a bizarre route that had my wife complaining that this was really messed up. Couldn't be right. But it was rush hour, and the trip took us about 20 minutes vs. nearly an hour for the non-Waze majority in our group.
I can't say it's always been perfect, but for the most part, this has been the story again and again over the years. Hop on a familiar expressway and get rerouted to something that in your experience makes no sense? Ignore it at your peril. You assume you know better because you've driven it a million times, but you don't know about that accident that traps you in gridlock for 45 minutes.
Many years ago we were at a travel sports event in a busy city. So about 20 families with separate rental cars navigating to the same hotels, fields and restaurants. Someone suggested using Waze, and it was the first time I'd ever heard of it. A handful of us downloaded it and gave it a shot. The very first trip back to a hotel took us on a bizarre route that had my wife complaining that this was really messed up. Couldn't be right. But it was rush hour, and the trip took us about 20 minutes vs. nearly an hour for the non-Waze majority in our group.
I can't say it's always been perfect, but for the most part, this has been the story again and again over the years. Hop on a familiar expressway and get rerouted to something that in your experience makes no sense? Ignore it at your peril. You assume you know better because you've driven it a million times, but you don't know about that accident that traps you in gridlock for 45 minutes.