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Yesterday I had to drive to a nearby town, just 20 minutes away, and noticed that every single petrol station there was a good 5p per litre cheaper than my town. I might plug this into a map.

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The variation in even a couple of miles can be pretty big. I almost never go out of my way to visit a cheaper petrol station because that's usually a false economy, but there are definitely some local places that I favour or avoid because they're almost always cheaper/more expensive than the surrounding ones.

as much as I try to stay away from Google products: waze shows this on the usual driving map quite well

I had to give up Waze over xmas because it refused to give me the 1 hour, straight down the motorway route, and instead tried to send me a bizarre route that would take 2.5 hours. Switched to Apple Maps and haven't gone back, though I do miss the fact that Waze shows you your current speed.

> though I do miss the fact that Waze shows you your current speed.

this is the only reason I use waze!

I feel like I’m missing something here - presumably your vehicle has a speedometer? What does the Waze speed dial give you over this?

Unless you mean that it has the speed limit too, if so I agree that it’s a must have, along with the speed camera alerts.

It gives you your current speed, the speed limit, and flashes warns when you go over the limit. I find it more helpful than plain speedometer because sometimes you don't notice speed limit changes

Strange that google maps still doesn't show fuel prices in the UK. Google maps show fuel prices the US so this feature was implemented and it should be easy to show prices in the UK using the same data source was Waze.

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