US News Locals upset at Google's Waze for sending traffic to their streets

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The residents of neighborhoods in Los Angeles County are not happy with Waze, Google's crowdsourced mapping app. It's sending the area's infamous freeway traffic onto their once quiet streets, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

The app, known to show drivers the quickest route to their destination by relying on crowd-sourced information, is showing drivers how to avoid bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic by moving it onto local roads, locals told the news service.

Waze lets drivers report real-time traffic conditions like accidents, weather or even police carsightings. It encourages users to make reports by awarding points and badges. Google bought the app last year for $966 million. The tech titanintegrated Waze's reports into its mobile app shortly after the acquisition.

Thanks to the dedicated reporting of LA drivers, streets that run parallel to the Interstate 405 freeway are congested, local residents say.

A Google spokeswoman told residents it's app is not the problem, it's LA traffic, according to the AP. Indeed, the US Department of Transportation said the notoriously busy I-405 sees 379,000 cars a day.

Read more here. (Cnet)
 

jonas

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They better be happy about the extra tourism!
 

Varine

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I don't think residential LA cares about tourism.
 

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Residential LA are like any other residentials. Business LA, however, would prefer tourism more.
 

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Imagine, thousands of cars that herd back and forth every day
on your streets. :rolleyes:
 

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Not possible, the streets in residential areas in my country are build in a way that cars can barely drive through. You are limited to 10 kilometers per hour, there is like bumbers every 10 meters, and at every corner there is a stop sign. Also: Every second street is one-way only.
Outside of the main streets you aint going nowhere over here.
 

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Roads designed that way are either because of:
  • Old roads are upgraded to newer roads, but the layout stays the same.
  • Once humble homes, now tall buildings. Roads are turned into mazes for navigating around bustling areas.
  • Shitty government city planning.
 

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It's because his country sucks and they couldn't pave in a straight line, so they ended up with curvy ass roads and oddly shaped intersections.
 

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Roads designed that way are either because of:
  • Old roads are upgraded to newer roads, but the layout stays the same.
  • Once humble homes, now tall buildings. Roads are turned into mazes for navigating around bustling areas.
  • Shitty government city planning.
No, they make that on purpose on new residential areas.
They put trees everywhere so that you have to drive in curvy lines all around them, and every now and then the road is so small that no 2 cars can pass each other. So if a car is coming from the other side one of them has to wait.
They do it so that nobody would EVER try to take a shortcut through a residential area.
 

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Ok, intentional road planning seems to not be a part of shitty government city planning.
 
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