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Originally Posted by SUMMIT WHITE SS
Have you used this? I don't know anyone who has personally, but I am very curious about it...
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I do, every day. It's a crowd sourced input of traffic conditions and alerts. It requires people to input via a couple taps (they're working on voice) that there's a LEO on either my side or the other side of the road. Also, if there are road conditions that may be hazardous, like construction, potholes, cars on the shoulder, accidents, etc...
Also, since it uses Google Maps as an engine (google owns Waze), it also has current traffic alerts, traffic density, etc...
You'll know 5 miles away (via an icon on the screen) if there's a LEO parked on the road. (You don't tag moving ones). And you will get audible alerts a half mile away. Essentially, you can see around corners (as long as someone else has tagged them). It's only as good as the people that are also using it.
That said, where I live, I haven't had to tag a LEO in a while. They're always tagged before I get there.
On long trips, if there's an accident that has a highway slowed down/stopped, (and you have it in navigation/directions mode) and there's a faster way around it, it will tell you of the slowdown ahead and if a faster route is available, will guide you around it on the b-level roads via alternate route.
It's a good tool. I have it on all the time, even locally, because there's a construction zone on a highway bridge (Rt 195/fall river MA) that many times backs up for miles if something happens on it. I can take alternate routes where I don't lose as much time.
--kC