WAZE Upgrade

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I’ve always felt like GPS apps should have an “avoid ghetto” feature for that exact reason. Waze has given me a nice tour of sketchy areas around LAX over the years. Fine during the day, but at night I stay on the interstate and major streets.

THIS. Every GPS needs that feature. My GPS has live traffic, and if there is a delay ahead on the route it will change my route to get me around it. On a road trip going through St. Louis it said major delay on the interstate, and took me into some areas that were down right scary. I was real glad it was daylight, and I did not need gas.

[911 Rod]

I've been using it for a few years and it is handy.
Not sure if the same in the US, but here in Canada we are getting a lot of pop up ads. To the point of missing my turn because ads keep popping up.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

THIS. Every GPS needs that feature. My GPS has live traffic, and if there is a delay ahead on the route it will change my route to get me around it. On a road trip going through St. Louis it said major delay on the interstate, and took me into some areas that were down right scary. I was real glad it was daylight, and I did not need gas.

Oh man, I had a bad night in downtown St Louis many years ago. Being drunk and dumb is my sole reason for survival IMHO.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

I’ve always felt like GPS apps should have an “avoid ghetto” feature for that exact reason. Waze has given me a nice tour of sketchy areas around LAX over the years. Fine during the day, but at night I stay on the interstate and major streets.

My experience with Waze is meh... I work in downtown Los Angeles and almost every day it recommends I get off the freeway in the ghetto and take surface streets into work... it also occasionally misses traffic jams.

[Cajundaddy]

There are no perfect GPS nav systems. I drive a service truck every day and so far have used Apple, Garmin, Tom Tom, Mapquest, Google, and Waze. Each has their benefits but for real time traffic and LEO updates I prefer Waze.

I have been driving these roads for 40 years and it will regularly find a short cut I never considered before, a huge time saver. It has directed me through South Central LA and Eastside Riverside but I tend to ignore these detours and let it reroute after I pass the suggested off ramp. "Avoid ghetto" would be a worthwhile paid upgrade.

[gprsh924]

Waze takes me through some pretty sketchy parts of the south/west sides of Chicago on my daily commute, but its saves a ton of time. I run waze 98% of the time I am in the car, if for nothing else than the LEO warnings. The last time time I didn't run Waze was 3 years ago on a easy saturday morning drive to the lake in my wife's suv...and I got popped going 88 in a 65 running with the flow of traffic. Never again.

That being said, in the past few months (with both Waze and Google Maps) I have had constant issues of the gps dropping out, then the app thinking I am all the sudden on a surface street on not on the highway, which leads to about 10 reroutes in 30 seconds. I understand why the apps get confused in they city because of the buidlings, but does anyone have any idea why it would be happening in suburban driving? When I say constant, I mean at least 3-4 "jumps" of my location per each 30 min trip.

[bcgreen]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

My experience with Waze is meh... I work in downtown Los Angeles and almost every day it recommends I get off the freeway in the ghetto and take surface streets into work... it also occasionally misses tragic jams.

I find on occasion Waze will say there is an accident ahead or a car on the shoulder, and when I get there, there isn't anything there. Was that too many there's?

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by bcgreen

I find on occasion Waze will say there is an accident ahead or a car on the shoulder, and when I get there, there isn't anything there. Was that too many there's?

I also get a lot of 'police' alerts that are not a speed trap but a cop writing someone a ticket on the side of the road.