Wazers unite

Do you know the application Waze? It’s a map application to help you navigate around traffic with updated traffic and obstacles by other users. However, the greatness of the application is determined by the other users. Usually, I don’t listen to my Waze. Sometimes the lady is a little bit of a pain and doesn’t like making left turns. Sometimes I’m not in a hurry and while the other way might be 2 minutes faster, I want to go this way because I want to stop by Starbucks.

On my way to Vegas, my estimated time of arrival changed with an addition of 40 minutes on the road. Then I heard the sound I wanted to hear “A faster route has been found”. My Waze directed me off the freeway and I drove like the wind on a side road that paralleled the freeway. I was cruising right along where I passed the accident and was wondering “how come no one else is on this road?” With about 3 miles left on the road, I come to a road closure on that stretch of high way. “NOOOO!” I shouted and cursed into the wind. Oh, well there is another road here, I wonder if it’ll work…..driving down the road about 5 miles, I can to the end of a dirt road that just faded into the desert. Damn it. I turned around and at the point of the road closure, saw cars caravanning through the desert to get back on the freeway past the point of the accident. I then proceeded to get inline and update my Waze so other’s wouldn’t make the same mistake I did.

But as I was in line, the trailer that was leading the pack got stuck in the sand and while kicking up dirt, I decided to just go back half way and get on the freeway entrance I had previously passed. Luckily though, the truck that had overturned was pushed off to the side and traffic was once again moving. But Wazers, if you had taken the time to update the road closure (cause I doubt I was the first person to have seen it) I wouldn’t have been misled. I was thanked several times through the application for updating the roads. You could have been thanked too. So Wazers, take the time to update the major things to help us save time for the small things.