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Old Mar 9, 2016 | 06:52 AM
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Any Wazer's on here?

I use it religiously. Works very well.


https://www.waze.com/
 
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Old Mar 9, 2016 | 09:00 AM
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I use waze for any road trips I take and it's worked great. It probably saved me today too by calling out police ahead as I was about to overtake a car. There's a lot of flexibility in the map display and it doesn't use much data either.

For strictly driving, Waze is great, but if you're in a big city and use public transport then Google Maps still is the app to use.
 
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Old Mar 9, 2016 | 09:10 AM
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I combine waze with my valentine 1 and the app YaV1 for a perfect suite of protection
 
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Old Mar 9, 2016 | 09:40 AM
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of course!
 
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Old Mar 9, 2016 | 10:32 AM
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I use Waze occasionally but I generally prefer Google Maps because of its better presentation of route options before and during the trip.
 
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Old Mar 9, 2016 | 11:57 AM
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I was on the road Saturday and amazed at how many other Wazer's were in my vicinity.
 
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Old Mar 9, 2016 | 03:11 PM
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I'm a user. Been one for a while. It can be very handy, but sometimes the routing is very strange.
 
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Old Mar 10, 2016 | 06:07 AM
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Lots of people used this on MTTS 2014, seemed to be very popular for the big MINI meets going coast to coast.
 
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Old Mar 10, 2016 | 11:54 AM
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Every time I get in the car!
 
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Old Mar 12, 2016 | 09:04 AM
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I use it going state to state. My experience using it in town has not been the best. Probably just me.
 
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Old Mar 14, 2016 | 12:27 PM
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I use it and am a top 1% user here in the DC area. It's a must have in my opinion especially in an area with lots of congestion. I don't always trust the routes, but 9 times out of 10 it is dead on advising a better commute for me. It has saved me from countless laser checkpoints, and my V1 does just fine for RADAR even when moving and when Waze doesn't pick it up obviously. Love Waze...the more people that use it the better.
 
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Old Apr 7, 2016 | 03:28 PM
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Love Waze, diggin the redesign.
 
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Old Apr 7, 2016 | 03:30 PM
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Yes, use it all the time.
 
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Old Apr 15, 2016 | 04:32 AM
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Love it. Use it every day. I find it spot on on using the crowd sourced info to accurately reroute. And the police function ! Wow.
1 thing I wish users were able to load pre selected hazards to the map screen maybe limit it to 2 or 3. For instance a little icon. For. Police on this side. Or pot hole on this side. So the user doesn't have to click 4 buttons.
 
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Old Apr 15, 2016 | 12:09 PM
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I could have sworn that's one of the new things they added in the big 4.0 release. You can hold down the report button on the map and then three options pop up for quicker reporting. Still not a one-tap solution but a little faster.
 
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Old Apr 17, 2016 | 05:17 AM
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Originally Posted by 3lusive
I could have sworn that's one of the new things they added in the big 4.0 release. You can hold down the report button on the map and then three options pop up for quicker reporting. Still not a one-tap solution but a little faster.
Thats what I get for not reading the release notes. Thanks. Great find !
 
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Old Apr 17, 2016 | 03:09 PM
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Is there a manual anywhere? I have no idea what it means when I'm driving and get this blue halo around my vehicle.
 
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