This is an annoying, and more importantly, destination blocking from the drivers POV part of Waze which for me has almost resulted in a driving accident, that I'd classify the "feature" a danger to drivers. I depend on Waze to find new customer locations based ONLY on address (meaning I don't know the NAME of the place I'm driving to), so when the pop-up BLOCKS me from seeing the last 200' or so of the drive, in a busy city like Houston where I'm at, I find myself trying to reorient my phone to show the destination so I don't miss the entry. This causes me to shift my focus off of driving to jacking with my phone which is now an offence that we can be tickets for (distracted driving - something like $100+ fine). Does Google/Waze want to be known for having a "feature" that promotes distracted driving? I would not for a moment hesitate to inform any news reporting agency that a non-defeatable nuisance in their product is the cause of whatever possible negative outcome that is a result of this annoying "feature" (my apologies for using "feature" like this... I just don't know what else to call it that doesn't involve stronger language). Come on Google, sup dragging your feet on this. A setting needs to be mandatory to defeat this for safety's sake.
Nick Dunn
This is an annoying, and more importantly, destination blocking from the drivers POV part of Waze which for me has almost resulted in a driving accident, that I'd classify the "feature" a danger to drivers. I depend on Waze to find new customer locations based ONLY on address (meaning I don't know the NAME of the place I'm driving to), so when the pop-up BLOCKS me from seeing the last 200' or so of the drive, in a busy city like Houston where I'm at, I find myself trying to reorient my phone to show the destination so I don't miss the entry. This causes me to shift my focus off of driving to jacking with my phone which is now an offence that we can be tickets for (distracted driving - something like $100+ fine). Does Google/Waze want to be known for having a "feature" that promotes distracted driving? I would not for a moment hesitate to inform any news reporting agency that a non-defeatable nuisance in their product is the cause of whatever possible negative outcome that is a result of this annoying "feature" (my apologies for using "feature" like this... I just don't know what else to call it that doesn't involve stronger language). Come on Google, sup dragging your feet on this. A setting needs to be mandatory to defeat this for safety's sake.