How many of you are using WAZE?

[Black]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Quack former Royalty, I don't currently drive far enough in a week to keep in the top 1%.

It's far from perfect for driving but I like it better than Google Maps. My experience might be out of date because I haven't driving with an iPhone user recently. Waze would recalculate a route much faster. iPhone would waste a few minutes trying to get you back on the route.

Google Maps in my experience tried desperately to get you onto limited access highways. Thought I read or heard somewhere that they were mandated to do so.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Black wrote:
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Quack former Royalty, I don't currently drive far enough in a week to keep in the top 1%.

It's far from perfect for driving but I like it better than Google Maps. My experience might be out of date because I haven't driving with an iPhone user recently. Waze would recalculate a route much faster. iPhone would waste a few minutes trying to get you back on the route.

Google Maps in my experience tried desperately to get you onto limited access highways. Thought I read or heard somewhere that they were mandated to do so.
Waze seems to try to balance traffic between most possible routes, just sometimes it is 5-8 minutes behind what is happening real time. If the freeway is blocked by a big crash and users post that, it will put drivers on city streets until they are as slow as the freeway.

[M A V I C]

I used it for a road trip over the summer.

[RAMd®d]

I have it but haven't felt the need to try it.

[davemchine]

I have used it but only as a passenger. I find it amusing to follow all the items noted along the road and to add my own. I have not used it for directions though.

[graylocks]

Waze has saved my time bacon quite often. i also like the fact that if you are unavoidably stuck in traffic it lets you know how long to expect it to last. i find i can chill a bit if i know the gridlock will clear within a certain time frame as opposed to thinking oh, my god, how long will this go on?

[mattkime]

i think its great even if it doesn't speed up the trip. its nice just to know whats going on.

[Gareth]

I use Waze daily to commute and it consistantly cut 5-10 minutes compared to me just randomly picking which way to go. But you have to know when to ignore its directions and it should really have voice recognition so that when you scream "f*** you waze, i don't want to cross a 6 lane street on a stop sign" it knows to never tell you to do that again.

The most recent version has severe errors with "North Up" driving so I was looking for replacements. I tried Navigon since I aready have it with traffic but when it told me it would take 20 minutes to get to work (half the normal time) I immediately went back to Waze.

[ztirffritz]

I use waze anytime I travel more than 20min, which isn't often. This weekend I put 800+ miles on my car though.

[datbeme]

I was partial to GPS Drive until we were at an out-of-state soccer tournament with several other families, and the Wazers were avoiding all the congestion and arriving way ahead of everyone else. I used Waze the next day, and while it sent us on a seemingly-odd route, our 15-20 minute drive was about 30 minutes faster than what the non-Wazers encountered in heavy traffic.

I've used it almost exclusively since then. It's not perfect...sometimes I ignore what seems like an illogical suggestion, but more often than not, those suggestions avoid extreme delays that I would not have otherwise anticipated.