I too, am an electric vehicle driver with limited lease mileage. My commute to work is a few minutes faster on the highway, but 4.6 miles longer. In order to avoid putting an extra 9-10 miles on my car 5x a week, I use the shortest route to get to work and back, and fastest route option for other destinations.
Livemap showing fastest route and my app showing shortest route:
I'd argue your point as I seem to have left my app set to shortest before updating to this most recent version, and it is now stuck always giving me the shortest route. I have to use Google Maps now in order to get the fastest route since there is no way for me to change it in waze. The setting is stuck to my account since reinstalling the app, and trying to route on an iPhone, iPad, and Android with my account all net the same result.Bigbear3764 wrote:Waze staff announced on 2017-12-25 that the routing server no longer pays attention to the app configuration option requesting "fastest" or "shortest" routing.
The server will now give the fastest route, no matter what the user has requested in the app.
Livemap showing fastest route and my app showing shortest route:
Re: Fastest/shortest route option