Waze

You mean waze ?

 

@Trucking in Tennessee You been living under a rock?

This app been out for over 5yrs...

 

Troopers now use it to plant fake police cars on the interstate to spook wazers

 

Waze is good about audibly telling you about everything before you approach it .... everything except slow or stopped traffic. WTF is wrong with those developers?

 

Both of them will at least build in traffic backup notification (with data connection) soon. TomTom already has a device out with this but no doubt it will need work to get the bugs out. But as far as the rest of the info that Waze provides, Google is not going to share that other proprietary data/system with anyone so RM and Garmin will have to settle for live traffic speed awareness. I guess they both have live traffic via data coms but they need to add in enhanced notification of problems immediately ahead.

Many will argue that many will become dependent on this and there will be times when there are problems with the system or connection, and data will not be correct or current but this can easily be resolved by indicating, "missing or old data" flashing icon when there is a problem and not currently working up to par, for whatever reason.

 

I don't have the newer Garmin. Does it show a traffic overlay in remote areas of interstate like between Little Rock and Memphis for example? I.e. If traffic is flowing normal, does it indicate so on the map as "green" or do you have to guess if it has current traffic for a given area or not