[JavaBrewer]

Waze has been pretty great for me. A couple years ago I was making the trek from San Diego to Santa Barbara almost weekly and the app was very useful. I have had a couple "goose chase" trips where it routed me to surface streets to save a couple minutes but in reality I lost time. However many times we started the drive (3+ hours) and our arrival time was within minutes of their first estimate. Amazing. My wife had issues with the app last week when she was in Santa Barbara and the 101 was flooded/closed. The app didn't pick up the closure and she fought it all the way North to Santa Maria to get the access highway to the I-5. I have an iPhone and rarely use the Apple map for driving.