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- Pcheaven
- Member Since: 06 Jun 2017
- Location: Tunbridge wells
- Posts: 378
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- Pcheaven
- Member Since: 06 Jun 2017
- Location: Tunbridge wells
- Posts: 378
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- jimbg
- Member Since: 23 Jun 2016
- Location: Devon
- Posts: 1472
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- Craigp
- Member Since: 09 Nov 2016
- Location: Hull
- Posts: 690
Your car hates you
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- jimbg
- Member Since: 23 Jun 2016
- Location: Devon
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I am starting to believe that!
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- DG
- Member Since: 27 Apr 2016
- Location: Surrey
- Posts: 434
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You have "REAL TIME TRAFFIC FLOW" which means it is taking info via multiple live sources so it should know if there's a problem en route. Works well in London
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- jimbg
- Member Since: 23 Jun 2016
- Location: Devon
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- DG
- Member Since: 27 Apr 2016
- Location: Surrey
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- ForlornMTL
- Member Since: 14 Jun 2017
- Location: Montreal
- Posts: 145
DG wrote:
You have "REAL TIME TRAFFIC FLOW" which means it is taking info via multiple live sources so it should know if there's a problem en route. Works well in London
A couple weeks ago i was following the sat-nav to circumvent some heavy traffic. Google maps was telling me to go one way, through the city during rush hour...
made no sense at the time.
So I decided to go the long way around and follow the D5 sat-nav...
As i set off it was telling me to go a certain route which, half way, went around some local traffic where 2 motorways merge, made sense. But once i approached i noticed it had changed routing and showed there was no more traffic and all is well, so i didn't exit where i was first meant to.
I ended up in gridlock a few hundred meters after the exit and a bend.
Got stuck there for a good 27 minutes. And even as i was stopped in traffic, the Sat-Nav was telling me the road was clear and no traffic at all.
I thought the traffic had cleared up while i was driving, but no, the "real time traffic flow" was just unaware that hundreds of vehicles were still stopped on 2 motorways.
I knew it was nearly impossible that traffic had suddenly disappeared but i didn't follow my human instinct.
I'll be following mu instinct and get some help from Google maps from now on, thank you.
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- Labbix
- Member Since: 05 Mar 2018
- Location: Tanzania
- Posts: 955
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- ForlornMTL
- Member Since: 14 Jun 2017
- Location: Montreal
- Posts: 145
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Waze... all it seems to want to do is tell me where there's a fast food restaurant.
And it never keeps north, always changes compass direction when zooming in or as i open the app.
Not practical on the go, having to mess about with your screen just to have north pointing up. Can't seem to find an option for that.
It keeps asking me if i'm a passenger because using it while driving is illegal... i'm sat at my desk looking at the app while typing this comment, not driving !?!?!
It never tells me anything much different than Google maps and i really don't like the design of the app. I can't see where the traffic is on a suggested route unless i zoom in really close.
With Google maps, it shows you clearly, green, yellow, red, black. Simple ! No zooming in needed unless it's a long enough journey. Much easier to figure out which route to take when you know the roads and the usual traffic spots.
I do look at both before setting off as Waze can be a bit faster on being up to date but the cons outweigh the pros for me.
And in Montreal, because we have perpetual road works and there are multiple major works on the way at once, we have a radio station dedicated to traffic reports. 24/7.
So i look at waze, google maps and listen to the radio to make a judgment call when setting off towards traffic prone destinations.
Luckily i don't have traffic between work and home, so no daily stress from that.
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- Labbix
- Member Since: 05 Mar 2018
- Location: Tanzania
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- DG
- Member Since: 27 Apr 2016
- Location: Surrey
- Posts: 434
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- ForlornMTL
- Member Since: 14 Jun 2017
- Location: Montreal
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I understand it's as good as the information going in, but a few minutes earlier it knew about this incident and was leading me to go around it. But for some reason, during the drive, the system got told the incident had disappeared and led me straight to it. Maybe a system error, who knows. I'm not trusting it anymore
JLR uses here.com for the sat-nav and traffic info. Same used by Bing maps. I have had a hard time getting them to update our business info. We moved nearly 4 years ago and a few months ago they still had our old address in the system even though i've notified them of the changes.
And i just checked right now. They have our new address and one that is over 15 years out of date, we've moved twice since then.
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- ForlornMTL
- Member Since: 14 Jun 2017
- Location: Montreal
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Labbix wrote:
Strange, I’m on iPhone 6 and waze worked extremely well (at least in Belgium), quicker to change and less traffic on the mentioned roads than google maps suggestions. I found it really useful as Brussels is one big trouble for cars
I'm on iPhone 7Plus with latest ios.
Here is the same trip on Google vs Waze right now.
Google is much easier to see what's going on. Waze has no indication as to where the traffic is or if there is any at all.
Yes, Waze is quicker on the delay updates as seen in these. Waze has the same route as Google at 4 minutes longer.
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