I appreciate the great service Waze provides, but I’d like to request an option to prevent rerouting unless the time savings is at least five minutes.

Currently, Waze sometimes redirects me through unsuitable local roads to save just a minute or two. These roads are often too narrow for through traffic, unsuitable for certain vehicles, or pass through residential areas where children play. This not only creates unnecessary risks but also disrupts local communities.

I’d love the ability to set a threshold for rerouting, ensuring that minor time savings don’t come at the expense of safety and road suitability.

There needs to be a better algorithm for choosing between a route with tolls and one without.
From Chicago to Michigan there are 2 major routes. One has No Tolls and the other is $12+. The toll route is always faster. But sometimes only 3 minutes faster. I don’t know anyone that would want the default to pay $12 to save 3 minutes. I’m not sure what the cutoff is, but I would prefer a calculation based on percent added.

Well I guess since this post is more than 8 years old and Waze still constantly tries to reroute me 7 miles out of the way on a complicated route to save 1 minute from my drive, that Waze's suggestion box isn't worth squat. Thanks a million!

I agree with this I would also like it to stop asking every 10 minutes. I drive the same way to work everyday but use Waze for traffic updates, I shouldn’t have to hit no on rerouting 5 times in 30 minutes just to save 1 minute. There should be a way to turn this off because the 1 minute isn’t worth it to me when the route it tries to put me on has worse traffic and makes me dart across 4 lanes of interstate traffic immediately during rush hour.

Totally agree ... I came into this forum to suggest this feature and was pleased to see others thought the same. I particularly hate it when Waze takes me off a highway and onto dangerous winding backroads to save 1 minute!

Tesla has that feature.

Allow user to setup a preferred route to a destination and only change it when time would exceed a set time increase.

For example, I never take any of the suggested route's to and from work. I have a set route that is always within 5 minutes of your suggested routes but has 50% less traffic and includes many back roads etc. But if travel time would increase by 10 minutes then I might take a suggested alternative route

Allow a setting to avoid a toll road if the journey is only x amount quicker (x being defined by the user).

Perhaps the greatest problem with Waze is when the inconvenience of taking a nonstandard route is not proportional to the time savings the new route provides. All too often I’m taken on an insane route in comparison to the normal one just to save two minutes.

I would like to prevent Waze from automatically rerouting (or suggesting an alternative “best route”) unless the new route saves 10 minutes of the total “mainstream” route time.

Perhaps people could choose different thresholds for reroutes.

I hate it when all of a sudden I’m rerouted in traffic on the highway to take the next exit in half a mile and I struggle to get over in bumper-to-bumper traffic just to find out I’m getting off the highway and back on the highway to save 60 seconds.

Sometimes a route changes mid-route. I would like to set a limit thus that the route only changed if the change resulted in a savings (of a length of time I can set). So "only change route if there is a savings of 5 minutes"0

I am for adding options. Users have different likes and dislikes, some don't mind the rerouting and some do, so there should be an option to turn on and turn off rerouting as a part of settings.

I thought to switch bc I hate google maps auto rerouting. Now I see Waze doing the same big brother tactic. Argh. How about you stop trying to control and force my behavior and show me a modicum of respect. There needs to be an option to disable auto rerouting or at least to default it to no. Make the suggestion and if I ignore it, my route doesnt change.

So far, I find no reason to switch from google maps to Waze. No way to turn off auto rerouting. No easy toggle between overview and Re center. No multipl stops. What a disappointment.

Sometimes a reroute saves only a few minutes and it is not worth the hassle of all the twists and turns. Last time it did thus, it took me through an area with multiple blocks if construction and I got a nail in my tire. Fortunately, the ensuing flat tire waited until I was near home. But if it was in the construction area, it could have been very difficult to get service.

I wish I could vote this 1000 times

Not a bad idea. But maybe better, or in addition, would be to have a setting that allows the user to set a minimum amount of time desired to be saved by rerouting to automatically avoid rerouting that saves only a minute or whatever. I'm convinced that some reroutes only save 30 seconds or less.

On Android auto, Google maps show times for alternate routes while navigating. It is easier to tell whether another route is about the same time. I know that Waze has a button for routes but it is not as convenient while driving. I realize that displaying other Waze drivers and buttons for reporting issues take up space but it would be helpful for driving.

100% this!
Twice in the last month I've been taken around towns just to save 1 min off my eta - arguably the town was really busy because everyone else was doing the same (I could see a line of wazers in ahead) and I think it slowed it down.
Unless the main road is completely blocked, I don't want a re-reoute

I agree. I will pick a route and if I so much as back out of my parking spot to the left (when Waze expected me to go right) Waze will automatically reroute me to its preferred, default route even if I had already told it to plot an alternate one. This is especially frustrating because it happens so frequently, and more than once I've been rerouted onto the interstate in rush hour.

Offer option to select an easier driving route (or more familiar) if the time difference is not that significant (ex. <5 or <10 minutes)

הוספת אפשרות להימנע מניתוב דרך מסלול ארוך יותר פיזית אך כזה שחוסך זמן, אלא אם הזמן הנחסך יהיה מעל מספר מסוים של דקות
כדאי שתהיה בחירה של המשתמש בהגדרות לגבי זמן החיסכון שבגינו הוא יעדיף להאריך או לסבך את הדרך.