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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by rootusrootus on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:35PM (#22197687)
I got that impression, too. On multiple occasions I ignored a suggested turn because I was pretty certain it would be slower, and as soon as Waze adjusted the route based on my turn, the ETA went down. So it should have sent me the right way to begin with, but wanted to experiment with me to test an alternate route.

After enough of those, I reluctantly stopped using Waze.

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by fma on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:05PM (#22198319)
Yep, I have the same experience. Sometimes it keeps telling me to do a U turn and turn around on their original route. I need to hit stop and reroute sometimes. Definitely not smart...

I use Waze mostly for the police presence. And there was a lot today (end of month...).

A nice feature would be if it sees more police presence than usual you just get a general warning "there's more police presence on your route than usual".

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Re:Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the Uni... by bagacrap on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:39PM (#22199104)
perhaps it's load balancing for other cars. If one entity controls a significant enough portion of the total traffic in the system they might sometimes make a decision that negatively impacts one packet if it helps a sufficient number of other packets.
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