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Pardon the question, but how do you use it while you are driving? I mean, you wouldn't be looking at it all the time, so how would you know that something was ahead?
It relies on other Wazers out there to report things. You don't have to look at it - it calls out "Watch out - car stopped on shoulder ahead" or "Watch out - police reported ahead."
I've downloaded this app and am going to give it a try on my Chapel Hill to Raleigh commute for a while and see how it does calling out problems on I-40.
Waze....Cool app I installed it last night and my wife fooled around with it all the way to Cherry Grove this morning. We got tired of the counting cows game already
I use it for NAV as well as traffic and speedtrap (and Stoplight cam) reports, so I need to have it safely visible always, and since full-time NAV sucks juice, it needs power.
So I got a mount that suction cups to the top left corner of the front windscreen and ran a power cable from my fusebox. Now every time I get in the car, I snap my Android smartphone into the mount, plug it in and fire up Waze. It's just about a foot in front of my eyes, but still doesn't obscure the road. So it's very easy and very safe to use, just about as if I had a Heads Up Display.
I like the appearance and NAV functionality of GoogleNav a bit better, but the real time traffic you get from Waze trumps that. I use my PC ahead of time to put my destination's addresses in my Google calendar as events, which sync almost immediately to my phone. Then when it's time, I open the calendar, select the event, and long-press the address, which brings up a OpenWith dialog box that has Waze. That loads Waze and auto-loads the address into the destination field. So I end up entering destination addresses very rarely. (Increases safety and much decreases hassle). And if I have to enter the destination, it's still pretty good at the voice input and guessing the destination that way.
I finally drove this section of 540 today. It was great. It's really alarming seeing cars driving 55 in the right lane when the rest of traffic is going 75
I finally drove this section of 540 today. It was great. It's really alarming seeing cars driving 55 in the right lane when the rest of traffic is going 75
Perhaps the people doing 55 feel that's a safe speed for them given their vision and reflexes.
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I installed it last night and my wife fooled around with it all the way to Cherry Grove this morning. We got tired of the counting cows game already
