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roadsmash said:
I use Waze regularly and although it’s not perfect it’s worth it’s weight in gold for hazards/cameras etc.
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I must be using it wrong, as any police / cameras it warns me about audibly it is far too late, it gives a warning about 300 yds away, no where near enough if one was actually going over the limit. Mk1 eyeball sees them way before Waze chimes. Same with TomTom to be fair but at least that gives a camera icon on the side bar to warn that one or more is on the next 40 or so miles of the journey. !
I believe in older versions of waze, the config file could be edited to change the warning distance to something more realistic but alas that appears to be removed now.
Been using Waze now for about 6 months.
First use was on a run from Leeds to Nottingham (Straight down M1 so easy but thought I'd try it out).
Did everything fine, warning about speed cameras, clear map. As approached the M18 exit in the outside lane doing just over 70 it pinged up a warning saying 'Object in Carriageway', that got my attention. About 150 metres up the road there is a wheel half on the central reservation, half in the outside lane.
From that point I now use it for every longish journey.
Hit a couple of issues where it lost signal in Highlands and just stopped directing me. Also the app has frozen a couple of times and needed closing and reopening, once at a particular tricky section of M80/M73 which I'd never driven before so that was a pain.
Overall its done far more good than bad for me.
Got along run to Cardiff next week and Waze will be on the whole journey.
First use was on a run from Leeds to Nottingham (Straight down M1 so easy but thought I'd try it out).
Did everything fine, warning about speed cameras, clear map. As approached the M18 exit in the outside lane doing just over 70 it pinged up a warning saying 'Object in Carriageway', that got my attention. About 150 metres up the road there is a wheel half on the central reservation, half in the outside lane.
From that point I now use it for every longish journey.
Hit a couple of issues where it lost signal in Highlands and just stopped directing me. Also the app has frozen a couple of times and needed closing and reopening, once at a particular tricky section of M80/M73 which I'd never driven before so that was a pain.
Overall its done far more good than bad for me.
Got along run to Cardiff next week and Waze will be on the whole journey.
On Friday Waze barfed right at the most inconvenient moment which really pissed me off. It displayed 'Cannnot use GPS' so was reduced to guessing where I was as I was driving round a sketchy estate looking for a shop. The Android permissions page said Waze was using GPS but Waze refused to catch up, even when restarted. Google Maps worked fine.
I can't stand apps that do stuff like this so I've dumped it.
I can't stand apps that do stuff like this so I've dumped it.
Hazards/congestion etc can be added on the fly quite safely if you're sensible about it - its a couple of presses. I have a phablet set just so that I can prod the screen while still touching the wheel. I'd still be cautious of the looters though although many drivers don't seem to give a s
t given the number you see with phones jammed to their ears.
I find it quite variable, when it works its great, but some days I think there's not enough users contributing data, and it really struggles to understand what a road closure is, a couple of times lobbing me right into the epicentre of the chaos because it "sees" a traffic free road!
Also like said the software behind it isn't the slickest operation - you will have to shut it down and re start occasionally. I couldn't get it to run on a brand new ford sync 3 android auto in anything approaching a safe and usuable fashion - that sorry experiment lasted no time at all before I went straight back to the 8" tablet which has nothing else to concern itself with.
t given the number you see with phones jammed to their ears.I find it quite variable, when it works its great, but some days I think there's not enough users contributing data, and it really struggles to understand what a road closure is, a couple of times lobbing me right into the epicentre of the chaos because it "sees" a traffic free road!
Also like said the software behind it isn't the slickest operation - you will have to shut it down and re start occasionally. I couldn't get it to run on a brand new ford sync 3 android auto in anything approaching a safe and usuable fashion - that sorry experiment lasted no time at all before I went straight back to the 8" tablet which has nothing else to concern itself with.
Another thread revival...
When someone inputs a hazard such as a pot hole, does it get put into the system straight away fro everyone else to see, or does it require a set number of other users to also report the same hazard before it's published for everyone to see? Whats to stop someone repeatedly pressing 'hazard' etc all the time? Would Waze filter that out?
When someone inputs a hazard such as a pot hole, does it get put into the system straight away fro everyone else to see, or does it require a set number of other users to also report the same hazard before it's published for everyone to see? Whats to stop someone repeatedly pressing 'hazard' etc all the time? Would Waze filter that out?
Can someone let me know if they have found a fix for the Waze issue of not audibly reporting all speed cameras when used with apple CarPlay? It only started to happen around a month ago but speed cameras are really hit and miss now with only the pop-up banner warning sometimes. I have tried to run apple maps in the background as the camera warning on that app work but is just gets messy.
LeadFarmer said:
Another thread revival...
When someone inputs a hazard such as a pot hole, does it get put into the system straight away fro everyone else to see, or does it require a set number of other users to also report the same hazard before it's published for everyone to see? Whats to stop someone repeatedly pressing 'hazard' etc all the time? Would Waze filter that out?
I suspect it goes 'live' straight away but will be removed sharpish if other users click 'not there'. When someone inputs a hazard such as a pot hole, does it get put into the system straight away fro everyone else to see, or does it require a set number of other users to also report the same hazard before it's published for everyone to see? Whats to stop someone repeatedly pressing 'hazard' etc all the time? Would Waze filter that out?
There must be some level of preventing a single user over reporting, and again will be linked to other users clicking 'yes/no' on the alerts.
I'm just waiting for a "It's not the Police, it's a Highways Agency car" button.
Truckosaurus said:
I suspect it goes 'live' straight away but will be removed sharpish if other users click 'not there'.
There must be some level of preventing a single user over reporting, and again will be linked to other users clicking 'yes/no' on the alerts.
I'm just waiting for a "It's not the Police, it's a Highways Agency car" button.
"I'm just waiting for a "It's not the Police, it's a Highways Agency car" button." which is the one the police will be hitting There must be some level of preventing a single user over reporting, and again will be linked to other users clicking 'yes/no' on the alerts.
I'm just waiting for a "It's not the Police, it's a Highways Agency car" button.
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