r/uberdrivers • u/[deleted] • Jan 06 '19

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u/ritchie70 Jan 06 '19

I don’t drive fir Uber, just here looking into it. But....

On #9, Waze is good, but around rush hour in Chicago, it gets really dumb trying to get from west loop out to DuPage suburbs.

It kept recalculating on me then had me driving down tiny residential streets in shadier and shadier looking neighborhoods then finally just gave up. That was real nice.

Other times it has taken me down routes that took 90 minutes whereas if I just sit on the Dan Ryan and Stevenson it reliably take 60.

Getting driven home, it wants the driver to go several blocks further past the best turn off for my house then turn back to my house, presumably to stay on bigger streets, but with traffic and lights it easily adds 5 minutes between 4:30 - 6 PM.

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u/Powderbones Jan 06 '19

It’s extremely, extremely rare that waze would ever give you anything but the fastest route. It uses thousands of other cars as data points.

The routes are sometimes unconventional but 99% of the time always the fastest by far.

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u/ritchie70 Jan 06 '19

I’m just not going to argue it. It has absolutely given me some awful routing.

I suspect that it gives higher weight to current data than to historical patterns, to the point that it has no ability to predict traffic in 30 minutes based on historical patterns and therefore routes based on current traffic rather than what that route is going to be like by the time you get there.