Waze always chooses the 40/business85 split (probably because of advertisers) however the speed limits are slower, more traffic and MORE DANGEROUS BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC IDIOTS instead of the bypass south I85 toward Charlotte Ipe North toward Durham. The bypass is safer faster wider and almost always less traffic and is .2 or 2/10s of a mile longer. You can drive 70 to 75 the entire route and is usually 10 minutes faster. I’m not sure I want to correct this because Waze is probably lowing the traffic levels on this route. I drive south 95 to south 85 and return from Annapolis to Salisbury NC every week for going on 2 years now and waze never fails to take the longer time route however my other 3GPS programs take me to the bypass. Google maps takes me through Greensboro just like Waze. Imagine that
Hello - I’m familiar with the route that you’re describing. The two routes (I-85 and I-85 BUS) are very similar from a Waze routing perspective – they’re both controlled-access freeways, with I-85 being about a mile longer but to your point is often faster time-wise due to higher speed limits and less congestion.
To Waze, the two routes are often a toss-up. For instance I just checked the routing right now, and Waze is showing a 1 minute time difference between the two routes (with the slight advantage going to the I-85 BUS route). Waze does not consider ads at all in the routing - the algorithm is trying to predict the fastest route based on historical traffic times from past Wazer drives at similar times of day, combined with real-time information about traffic along the route.
One suggestion would be that as you get a couple miles from the split, click on the drive panel, then click Routes in the app - Waze will show it’s current estimated time on the chosen route as well as show alternative routes, and if the times are similar, you can click on one of the alternatives, telling Waze to take that route instead (or just take the preferred route and Waze will recalculate on the fly).
Please reply back if you have additional questions or comments about this.