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The Waze left is particularly controversial in Los Angeles, where traffic is a part of everyday life and there is at least one Waze user for every four car commuters in the metro area. In a lively thread on Reddit, some Angelenos referred the Waze left as “suicide.”
The “Waze left” may be coming to an end Kotaku 2022
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The “Waze left,” as it’s called, is that awful moment when you're on a fast path to your destination and Waze tells you to make an inconvenient, and usually dangerous, left turn.
Waze wants to stop telling you to make so many left turns Seth Kelley 2015
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/the-end-of-the-waze-left/406468/
The navigation app Waze is beloved for exploiting shortcuts, avoiding traffic, and proving that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line. But its sinuous directions can also be a source of annoyance for drivers, who are often asked to make treacherous left turns through oncoming traffic at dicey intersections.
Now the company is studying how to limit those white-knuckled maneuvers, which have become known as the “Waze left.”
September 21, 2015