The best way to use waze is to turn it on, automatically, every time you get into the car. Whether you’re navigating to a new destination, or traveling to a place you already know the way to, as you’ve probably seen by now, waze is a pretty handy tool to have by your side. Waze will tell you about traffic reports, alert you to speed traps ahead, gives you the chance to have a little fun chit chatting at long red lights, etc., but it’s gotta be comfortable to use, right?

Most of us around the office use window mounts in our cars, drop our phones in them when we get into the car, and then start waze, and you should, too. Take a quick minute to visit this online store – we think that they’re pretty much the least expensive mounts we’ve seen out there, most are just around $5.00. They have all kinds of other inexpensive gadgets, too, so take a look around after you put a new window mount in your shopping cart and get yourself something nice

We know you’re changing the world, one road geometry at a time

Have a newborn baby and need to name it with a ‘W’ after your dear uncle William? Why not call the little one Waze? Writing a love poem and need a word that rhymes with ‘hearts ablaze’? How about Waze? Or maybe, like active Mexican waze user, @Marco_Mor, you have an ‘A’, a ‘E’ and a ‘W’ and you want to seal the deal in your most recent game of Scrabble. Waze – and Marco’s brain – to the rescue! That’s the thing – you never know when waze will come in handy…

Lately, in various forums, we’ve been asked to define our competition and how we differ, and it’s a pretty easy question to answer. While other GPS apps rely on the computer alone to deliver navigation and maybe even traffic information, one of the most vital parts of what sets waze apart is the ‘human sensor’. We rely on our users to both actively and passively report what’s happening on the road at any given moment – and that’s what makes the difference. Click on the picture below (new window will open) to find out what happens when Homer relies on the logic of the computer, alone…

(The answers below are all from our users…)

1. You dream about map editing at night.  – mysoulishome

2. You see something suspicious on the side of the road but hesitate to call 911 because you’d have to exit waze (iPhone users) LOSING POINTS! – mysoulishome

3. Your spouse constantly laughs at you as you look down to see if waze is still munching. – mysoulishome

4. You secretly wish that you actually left dotted lines everywhere you went. It would be great for finding lost car keys. – mysoulishome

5. You intentionally take different roads to work every day, just for the points. – ryaninc

6. You would rather look at/watch waze than talk on the phone. – watsonda

7. You pretend not to notice the indicated turning just so that you can turn down the next road because you realize the next road still has dots on it.  – marque

8. Date nights go from dinner and a movie to long drives around town gobbling dots along the way. - Josh

9. You find yourself taking longer to get home at the end of the day so you can grap those few precious dots in neighborhoods you normally would drive by. – Josh

10. You scream at your iPhone when someone decides they need to call you while you drive. – Josh

11. You make the “WOBBA-WOBBA” chomping sound while munching new roads. – CaptainJoel17

12. You bought Modern Warfare 23 days ago and haven’t opened the box yet…

13.  The waze logo starts looking eerily like the zoloft blog… http://br.st/3kh – @lovelyssm

14. On your first day of using Waze, you get home from work, it’s midnight, you’re dog tired, but you start just driving around to feel part of the contributing crowd that maps the planet…  – WazeReview

Gosh, that last one really strikes a chord, huh? We wanna hear from the rest of you! Feel free to add to the list in the comments section…

We’re not quite sure what the story is behind these waze ’street art’ pics that we found on Twitter, below, but we really like ‘em!

Feel free to retweet – or to create your own…

http://twitpic.com/sixn2
http://twitpic.com/smj3w
http://twitpic.com/slc7j
http://twitpic.com/spb9d

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