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I only go back to Waze when I need the "plan a drive" feature, where you tell it what time you want to arrive, and it tells you when to leave.

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That feature exists in Google Maps, by clicking through the "depart at/arrive by" button

Can you also just put a destination and it'll show some sort of histogram of when the traffic is the busiest? Basically that + community warnings is the reason I'm 100% using Waze for driving directions.

Here is a screenshot of the feature I'm talking about: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/waze-plann...

Basically, I know I want to go to A, but I'm not sure when to leave, I just know I want to avoid as much traffic as possible, so when should I leave? The feature kind of answers that.

Not on mobile (iOS) unless they hid it very effectively. Only on web.

It’s on mobile and hidden very well behind the 3 dot menu to the top-right of the start/end location fields. Tap the 3 dots and then you can choose “set depart or arrive time” in the menu that opens

With that said, I do prefer waze’s graph showing traffic changing over time to help decide when to leave

Can't you do that in Google Maps?

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