It’s always been “Exit right to Exit to Kindergarten Court”. The “Exit to Exit to Kindergarten Court” is new, but the redundancy has always been there, and I’ve heard complaints before too.
Some have been using “Exit: Kindergarten Ct” instead, because it’s more similar to numbered exits. The redundancy is still there, and it’s said like “Exit right to Exit. Kindergarten Court.” or “Exit to Exit. Kindergarten Court.” Still redundant, but also more awkward.
The final option is just to use “to Kindergarten Ct”. Sounds better on TTS (“Exit [right] to Kindergarten Court”), but you lose the “exit” on screen. I think that’s a fair tradeoff, though others may not.
The problem with using one for left exits and another for right exits is that, in attempting to compensate for TTS inconsistency, you create a display inconsistency (where only some exits say “Exit” on screen and others don’t). If we’re not comfortable losing the “Exit” on unnumbered left exits, then we have to keep it on unnumbered right exits.
Before making any big decisions here, we should be sure to get some Californians in on the discussion. If I understand correctly, California still has a huge number of unnumbered exits, so their opinion is valuable.
Hopefully, an upcoming feature will allow us to create an “exit left” command. When that happens, we should reevaluate this question.
(For numbered exits, it says “Exit [right] to Exit 123. Main Street. Anytown.” This is acceptable because you are exiting (verb) to Exit 123 (specific noun). “Exit to 123” wouldn’t make sense, and something like “Take exit 123 on the right to…” would require some modification of the street name string, which Waze has never done, so we have no reason to assume it ever will—that’s not a convincing enough reason to change something that is as simple as it can be currently. For unnumbered exits, on the other hand, the noun tells you no more than the verb does.)
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