Dead App – Waze Navigation & Live Traffic Review

As best I can tell, this is either a dead app, or is on life support. I’ve used it daily for 7 years (according to my stats), and am ranked -3500 (don’t know if that even means anything). Lately I’ve been noting “issues” with the app, and recently started reporting these. To date not one has even garnered a reply, let alone an acknowledgement. This evening was rather remarkable. Trying to head home, and we found the on-ramp to the freeway was closed. For the direction we were headed, there is no direct way through, sans a sizable detour. We knew it was possible to navigate side streets through, but we didn’t know how. So I pulled out my phone and fired up waze. Needless to say, my first attempt told us to U turn and go back to the freeway. Ran it again, selected the 3rd option that bypassed the freeway. Thought we were good to go, but waze IMMEDIATELY recalculated telling us to go back to the freeway. Repeated this 2 more times, both times were followed by recalculations forcing it back to the freeway. We eventually went so far off course we actually ended up in an area we were familiar with, in the end waze did NOTHING for us (unless you count leaving my wife with nothing else to do but keep driving straight while I tried to get directions). The sizable detour we were trying to avoid would have saved us time over what we were stuck with. Why even present an option for alternate routes if the app is just going to override the choice anyway?
Review by Bobby T. on Waze Navigation & Live Traffic.

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