Duck & Weave, Zig while others are Zagging

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After a while of taking a particular route you get your own good sense of traffic avoidance.

Last week, for example, the family has been piling into the car for the morning commute later than normal & consequently hitting the peak of the peak hour.

So when I’m driving oft times I’ll see traffic ahead & because I’m careful to make my route include as many options as possible I’m able to say “nope. Not me. I’m not sitting in that!”. So I duck down a side street, drive down a lane so on the major road someone will let me in because they’re giving me the benefit of the doubt that I’m a resident of the area, not just an ahole trying to beat everyone else etc. Sometimes I double back (in Australia “chuck a u-ee” (U-turn)).

When I do this, though, I think waze could have no idea about why I’m driving such a drastically different way than normal. That got me to thinking. I wonder if there’s any value in waze detecting that you’re not going your normal way & asking “Are you avoiding traffic?”. Then it could put a flag up. That way if you’re a pioneering wazer, like I always am, then I might be able to help someone else.

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Correct me if I am wrong, since Waze check your speed and other Waze user speed, I think it will figure out that you are going faster than other people and it probably will tell othet users to take your route.

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Yep, if Waze is working correctly, you should soon find your route filled with Wazers following the “smarter” routing.

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oh how I look forward to that :frowning: It’s lonely out there with all my friends of zero (on my route, at my times) :frowning: My wazer avatar needs a hug.

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It’s strange, but when I see stuff in quotation marks like that - i.e. “smarter” - the inference I get is that it isn’t really smarter at all. So by “avoiding” traffic by not going the way waze “thinks” is “better”, then I’m going the “smarter” way :?:

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You have to teach it to make it smarter.

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If that means going the wrong way I can’t. I’ll just have to wait for more users here :frowning: Or maybe Pioneer Wazers could get bonus points for going the wrong way when they already know it is the wrong way.