Navigate shortest route
With the new update you all took away the option to search by shortest route available or Fastest route available. Please bring this function back.
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Paul commented
I'm a cab driver and really need the shortest trip option!
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Avishai Geva commented
Today. Waze user can select either the shortest time or the shortest distance route. Based on my rich experience and many trials I found that in many cases, when I choose shortest time route, I can arrive my destination just one minute later but save 5-6 km in distance. Therefore, my suggestion is to add third route selection option - MINIMAL FUEL CONSUMPTION. It can be programmed quite simply by your experienced team and I believe many users will like it.
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Anonymous commented
Fastest route not reliable as trafic condition is dynamic.
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Anonymous commented
Agreed...
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Anthony Merrill commented
Another in favor of shortest route options. Waze does not seem as accurate as it once was, and multiple times has wanted me to take a route nearly five miles longer when it could send me the shorter way in the same amount of time. A user needs to be able to choose the shortest route, then measure that against the potential extra time it takes. Thanks Waze.
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Anonymous commented
Shortest route - put it back on you stupid idiots it's simply a navigation basic must have - unbelievable!
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Jacek commented
With this shortest route option unavailable I am switching to another application.
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Mark Buzzman commented
This really needs to come back. And bizarrely seems to have affected normal routing. Waze seemed more accurate and even its fastest routes wasn’t overly a long distance, now they all are long drives.
I also drive an electric and a lease car and each mile counts. -
TD commented
Bring shortest route back...
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Pamela Musarra commented
I wish I had a choice on quickest or shortest routes. I guess we used to have that a long time ago. But today, 10/17/2019, we don't. It kept making me take the longer, slower route and gave me no option to take the quick interestate route that cut the time in half. So now I use the Mapquest app, because Google map does the same thing. I see no choices on either on a choice.
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Pamela Musarra commented
I agree. Waze kept telling me to take hwy 1 to go from Wells, ME to Portland (a 29 mile drive that takes an hour). Instead, we had to look at a real map and talk to people to figure out it is better to take I-95, which is only 30 miles away and takes 30 minutes. Once I got smart, I asked Waze to find I-95 and then I found my way to our hotel. Mapquest, however, shows you directions for I-95. Maybe Waze takes you the long way because hwy 1 was no tolls and I-95 charges a toll (a whole $1 LOL).
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Anonymous commented
Please make shortest route option, because I pay for car usage not by time, but by travel distance.
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Steven Wojtysiak commented
Rather than just having the option of avoiding tolls, have an option that shows how much time would be saved by using toll roads. Also, how much time would be lost by taking the least complicated route versus the fastest route.
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Bill Chen commented
As a driver of an electric vehicle,
I often want to be able to select the shortest route in a navigation app,
So that I can sacrifice time in favor of electricity to get to my destination,This is important because the fastest (time) route often uses a lot more electricity (longer distance and higher speed). It could risk me not being able to make it home or a charging station.
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RP commented
Often, a couple of minutes saved using “the fastest route” isn’t worth the extra distance (& perhaps, related expenses) which sometimes can be substantial, sans the ideal situation of keeping the option for “shortest route” (provided, of course that it in turn does not significantly jeopardize apps efficiency).
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Anonymous commented
Please!
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MA Pari commented
Not sure if the automated car and litigation in US are a cause of this. In US some cities in NJ have sued GPS companies with big pockets (Waze is owned by Google) and other that local traffic has gotten worse as GPS is now routing traffic through local roads. Also looks like as a part of Automation they are removing simple u turn or evening taking a smaller side street to take u turn to make travelling smoother (avoid unexpected accidents etc), this in turns results in stupid routes in some places.
I US, I see in the name of security and company bottom line, sadly user flexibility and choice are being removed every where (for eg, see windows 10 users have no say when updates occur or which updates they want).
I truly believe empowering users and giving them options is the way to go and not take away options. Giving options will get a company loyal customers
Since the shortest is not there, I am forced to use google maps.
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Debbie commented
Agreed!! WAZE no longer updates my route as I drive unless I search routes periodically. Not good to have eyes off the road so often! What happened?
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Ronan commented
I full agree, 50% more distance for 1 minute less is not worth it ! The algorithm should be improved on this or an option to avoid this cases
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sorin commented
Please add shortest route feature