Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents

KindMind writes According to AP, Waze has caused trouble for LA residents by redirecting traffic from Interstate 405 to neighborhood side streets paralleling the interstate. From the article: "When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were baffled. When word spread that the explosively popular new smartphone app Waze was sending many of those cars through their neighborhood in a quest to shave five minutes off a daily rush-hour commute, they were angry and ready to fight back. They would outsmart the app, some said, by using it to report phony car crashes and traffic jams on their streets that would keep the shortcut-seekers away. Months later, the cars are still there, and the people are still mad."

Comments

In the Ghetto....

[The12thRonin]

I feel like they should have the voice of Elvis as the nav voice for all the ghettos it takes you through.

Re:Move to a gated community

[Anonymous Coward]

"Predominately" isn't a word. You want "predominantly".

Actually it's spelled "Pedantic"

Re:Knowledge is power

[Anonymous Coward]

Telling people they shouldn't use software to avoid freeway traffic is like telling black slaves they can't read because they might learn what it's like to have a life outside the plantation.

You should continue to make analogies just like this, openly and often. It will speak much of your breadth and depth.

Re:Write a program to report crashes daily

[halivar]

Caltrops only do 1 hit point of damage, but they do halve your movement speed.

Re:this is something Google does a bit better

[Pontiac]

There is a place in the Dalles, Oregon where Google maps will try to make you take a left through a guard rail and off a 30ft tall retaining wall. To be fair the street does continue down there.