02-03-2020, 05:15 AM
davester wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Being able to pick a route to beat a GPS/Map app is pretty advanced. It requires knowledge of how traffic patterns change during the day.
That's the whole point of Waze. It combines GPS positioning, accurate maps, and crowd-sourced instantaneous traffic updating. It changes your routing as it sees situations develop. The few times I've thought that Waze was leading me astray, I was wrong.
I can beat WAZE sometimes, mostly because it is based on average. Also it assumes that you travel the speed limit and that there isn't traffic. In some parts of the greater Seattle area, if you aren't 10 over on the freeway, things get dangerous. People get ANGRY. Traffic it doesn't know about really screws things up too.
But on surface side streets in Seattle, driving the 20mph speed limit isn't a good idea in many areas, in my opinion. I roll along at maybe 15 and assume everything that can move could start to move at any time.