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The alert I see the most with Waze is "Vehicle stopped on shoulder", which is not only distracting when the yellow sign pops down and animates out, but can't possibly be relevant to my life when I'm driving in the left lane.

Most of the rest are fine.

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You can turn on and off each individual notification. And it also has voice commands built in to control the app. You don't even need the phone's screen on. It can be in your pocket while driving.

And it is relevant to you no matter what lane you are in. If there is a car on the shoulder, someone in the right lane could be not paying attention, and swerve into you to avoid that car. Though you should be always on high alert while driving, having a little extra notification and awareness could save your life.

> If there is a car on the shoulder, someone in the right lane could be not paying attention, and swerve into you to avoid that car.

Then on 101 they'd still be a lane or two away from me, so most of the time it doesn't matter. But someone's car is guaranteed to be broken down somewhere every day, so it just comes up all the time.

BTW, you actually can't turn it off without disabling all Hazards, but the rest of them like "object in lane" seem pretty good.

Wouldn't it be safer to pay attention to the road and notice someone swerving your way than to get an alert, look over your phone to read it, then look up to catch the swerving car?

What if the vehicle is around the next bend?

Are you actually arguing that drivers should have less information available to them?

Disclaimer: I use Waze and think it's fucking fantastic and do not understand this stupid brouhaha in this thread.

> Are you actually arguing that drivers should have less information available to them?

I'm arguing that drivers should be paying attention to operating their cars instead of their phones.

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