Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by jim_dow_jones on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:44PM
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Does anyone else open Waze only momentarily to make sure their primary route does not have significant traffic? I don't need it to direct me the entire drive, so I just quickly check to make sure there isn't some catastrophic accident that will block my path. After that I shut it down, put on a podcast, and go on my merry way.
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Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by iggg on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:51PM
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The optimal route will often change during my commute. Your commute may be significantly shorter than mine.
Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by homerguy69 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:36PM
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I did do that for sometime but I found that my commute has gotten worse with more accidents and constructions so I'm finding that almost 40% of the time my commute changes with Waze with new routes saving me tons of time in traffic. Plus it allows me to explore the country side more as a side-effect.
Re:Waze officially launches its ad program for small businesses
by r00fus on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:25PM
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Yeah, I tend to do this, but rarely (about once in a couple of months) traffic gets so bad on a specific part of my commute (where I literally have no viable alternative routes) that I'd wished I'd kept it on so I could turn around and just WFH.
Waze has saved me a couple of times where I find that out 5-10m through the drive and just turn around so I don't sit through important meeting in the car.
Google/Apple maps just don't update fast enough as they're not crowdsourced.