The problem is that it would be mostly useless, because it'd be buried in a menu somewhere where you can't easily change it while driving.
#Dc gridlock google maps drivers#
I kind of doubt it is, but one could imagine a computerized route direction system which, if enough driver's had it, could actually maximize efficiency by sending different drivers different routes intentionally. I suppose google maps could be smart enough to tell half the people to go one way and half the other. (Of course, one could also imagine using one's own route knowledge to pick an alternate route of one's own without google maps.) It's hard to tell what's imagination/selection bias, but following google maps traffic-jam-avoidance suggestions has seemed disastrous enough to me enough times that I mostly just stick to the original route now.
What portion of all the other driver's around me also looking at google maps? Is Google Maps telling them to take the same alternate route as me? Are they all going to do it? If they all do it, does the alternate route (which likely can't handle as much traffic as the original route) just became as jammed as waiting in traffic? Or even worse, if they're all going to do what google maps says, would I in fact be much better off ignoring it and sticking to the original route? Something that occurs to me as I sit in this traffic. So I'm stuck in a traffic jam, and google maps is telling me I can take an alternate route to avoid it and save 25 minutes vs waiting in the traffic jam. And so on for each segment of my alternate route. This ghost car doesn't need to go all the way to E, if it turned off at F, the app could find another car, one which at that point was at point F and later on drove to G (or better, E), and then see how much time they took. It would then know the time I would have needed to drive from B to F. if I drove from A via B, C, D, E towards Z, and there was an alternate route A-B-F-G-E-Z, and the route branches out at B (you can either take path B-C-D-E or path B-F-G-E), the app could find a car that was near me at point B, and went to F later on. I was thinking, it surely would be possible for Waze to look back along my route and calculate which route would have been better for me.Į.g. On another navigation related topic I was using Waze in a high-traffic city, where even the alternate routes have a lot of traffic. On Google Maps these areas were marked red. The roads are mostly empty in this country, but everyone must've slowed down when they saw the breathtaking scenery, and would pull into the viewing point's parking spot to stop and take pictures. An interesting "red but no traffic" phenomenon is in Iceland, with roads which are next to scenery viewing points.
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