First of all (and it feels weird having to say this, but you know, internet) the terrible incidents (two people are fighting for their lives) that happened this morning are far more important than my minor inconvenience on my commute. However, that leads me on to Waze.
What is people’s experience of using Waze? I’ve not used it heavily but have done in the past and it has seemed to work. However this morning there was chaos on the roads. A major local motorway was closed causing huge delays everywhere and gridlock on almost every other road used in a large region. Rather than a 20 minute commute I had an hour commute. The Waze app on my phone does indeed show most of this, but my Waze travel time sensor happily tells me that my commute is normal. I have a quick and easy commute to work every day and don’t need to use Waze or generally worry about traffic and I would never expect to be notified of every little nuanced traffic incident but if Waze cannot pickup something like this which is a major incident that happened several hours before my morning alert, combining police road closures and several thousand (probably tens of thousands) of people in very slow moving traffic I can’t see the point of it.