Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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So it's based off google data but factors in additional community input and adjusts your journey real time to always get you to your destination as fast as possible.surrey_commuter said:
As somebody who is in love with Google Maps Go I am all ears to hear how Waze can be even better.rick_chasey said:Glorious isn't it?
Honestly, I can't speak highly enough of it. Sensational app. 10/10 no complaints.
I answer to the "10 mins quicker" it is based upn real time info from Android users on the roads ahead.
So a sudden traffic jam appears on the motorway ahead of you? It will find the rat run that circumvents said jam instantly and automatically.
Flags up speed cameras, potholes, cars on the hard shoulder, rozzers etc.0 -
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Google Maps does that too but asks you if you want to take the diversion which I'd prefer. Sometimes says "reported by Waze user" because Google own Waze and they share data.rick_chasey said:
So it's based off google data but factors in additional community input and adjusts your journey real time to always get you to your destination as fast as possible.surrey_commuter said:
As somebody who is in love with Google Maps Go I am all ears to hear how Waze can be even better.rick_chasey said:Glorious isn't it?
Honestly, I can't speak highly enough of it. Sensational app. 10/10 no complaints.
I answer to the "10 mins quicker" it is based upn real time info from Android users on the roads ahead.
So a sudden traffic jam appears on the motorway ahead of you? It will find the rat run that circumvents said jam instantly and automatically.
Flags up speed cameras, potholes, cars on the hard shoulder, rozzers etc.
Haven't used Waze for a few years, to be honest, and Google Maps works lovely on android auto.0 -
Waze offers you a timer to cancel the route change too.
I find it much more functional than google maps. Won't hear a bad word against it, it's great, and I'm Mr Negative About Everything.0 -
Might give it another go - I used to use it about 8 years ago when I was driving to and from South Wales every week and it seemed consistently good at finding which of the routes from the M4 to home was least bad. I didn't like the way it tried to be like a game, and wanted my interaction every mow and then, and told me I was earning points or something. I just want a navigation aid to navigate and let me concentrate on driving.0
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Satnavs have knock-on effects. The cone gremlins are out in force on the A14 north of Newmarket. Westbound 3 lanes down to just one, tailback 6 miles and counting by 8 AM. So everyone's satnav tells them they can save a couple of nanoseconds by taking to the back roads then funnel down Newmarket high street. So all the villages are suddenly full of A14 traffic including HGVs, and the town is gridlocked because of dickhead behaviour at the roundabouts and traffic lights.0
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Despite my car having android/iOS connectivity to satnav, I found all the apps fell way short of windows phone navigation several years down the line. Bought a dedicated TomTom which is almost perfect and definitely worth the money.
Driving to the parents a few months back a blockage appears on the A50. Length of delay starts popping up and as it grows alternative routes start popping up. We’re about half an hour from the delay and things are getting worse and worse and the alternative route is obviously now chokka.
About 10 mins away and satnav reverts to original route and delays tumble.
We drive happily along a clear A50 and the diversion route to the north has big red lines on the satnav.
It’s all very clever but sometimes context is what’s missing.
Re windows phone, the car integration was better than both Android and iOS by miles. Hands free texting by voice just worked and the navigation was far better than I found in either Google maps or waze when windows phone went by the by.0 -
When was this?0
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Just used waze for a couple of 90 minute drives, it's good, works on the android auto nicely as it should. Have now found out how to stop it looking like a computer game showing all the other "wazers" (who cares???).
Didn't suggest a faster route, even when it was available on its suggested routes.
Pretty much the same as Google Maps but the waze map is a bit nicer for glancing at.0 -
Having to download a menu from a hotel/restaurant in order to be able to view it.
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
Might give it a go. I always use Google Maps on my phone, the built-in satnav on my car is shit and there's no way I'm forking out for map updates when I can just get it for free.
I travelled back from Cheshire on Friday and it was interesting to see that Google on my phone and the Apple maps on my wife's phone gave different routes at the start. Hers then seemed to pick up the multiple crash induced delays on the M5 more quickly than mine but both underestimated the delay in a couple of instances. I should have followed when it told me to get off at one of the junctions and rejoin at the other side though as that would have saved 10 minute0 -
Windows phone or the a50?kingstongraham said:When was this?
Win phone about 8-10 yrs ago. A50 about 3-4 months ago.
Windows phone: I had a car with basic Bluetooth. Out of the box, it read out that a message had been received and asked if you wanted it read out. You could then dictate reply. It would read back your dictation and ask if ok to send.
With the exception of humorous speech to text translations, it was perfect. Neither android or iOS do it as well today.
I tried loads of android apps which all had some but not all of the functionality and were all flaky.
There were many forums where ex win phone users bemoaned that they couldn’t replicate this in the years after its demise.
ios gets closer with sending texts through Siri but the incoming handling doesn’t compare.
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There’s a bit of an art/luck to predicting whether traffic is going to get worse or better and predicting whether there’s enough people likely to divert to an alternative route that makes the alternative slower.
The sat nav doesn’t tell you how quick you would have been if you hadn’t taken the diversion either 😂0 -
Google Maps prevented my friends and me missing a flight back in June when it faultlessly guided us across the Somerset Levels to get us to Bristol, when the M5 had two long waits, which were constantly building. The timing for arrival at Bristol was within 5 minutes accuracy from what was predicted. Seems to be pretty good at picking up snarl-ups, and keeping an eye on the ETA quickly flags up if something's going pear-shaed en route.0
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Looks like New York City Subway back in 1981.rick_chasey said:I swear trains didn’t used to be this grim
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Alas it’s the 21:09 from Kings Cross to Ely.
They also do away with arm rests between seats and tables/fold outs to cram more people in too.
Everyone looks like the hunch back staring at the screens in their laps.
These trains only came in in 20180 -
Warriors, come out to playay...webboo said:
Looks like New York City Subway back in 1981.rick_chasey said:I swear trains didn’t used to be this grim
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I’ve genuinely never seen one in use in anything like that state.rick_chasey said:I swear trains didn’t used to be this grim
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Which tag is yours?rick_chasey said:I’m not bulshitting, that’s the train I’m on right now. > my photo
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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No-one said you were. I’m amazed the company let it out of the depot. I did wonder if it had been vandalised on the journey but there seems to be several layers and you’d presumably be able to smell it. When I was commuting regularly by train we ended up with some pretty shabby rolling stock from the 80s in order to get more carriages but never saw anything vandalised to that extent.rick_chasey said:I’m not bulshitting, that’s the train I’m on right now. > my photo
I guess if that’s all that was available it’s a case of would you rather that or one less carriage?0 -
Honestly, I know you lot think I whine a lot about the trains but honestly, they are really bad and they once weren’t.0
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Worse than that.rick_chasey said:Honestly, I know you lot think I whine a lot about the trains but honestly, they are really bad and they once weren’t.
It is a symptom of today's society going downwards rather than a train issue.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
You whine a lot about it, but I don't use the train to go to Cambridge so have to believe it's justified. However, I don't know how much it's changed since you decided to move there, that's the difference that means the whining is justified or you should have looked into it before moving. From what you say, things have changed. It's definitely more than a bit sh!trick_chasey said:Honestly, I know you lot think I whine a lot about the trains but honestly, they are really bad and they once weren’t.
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Clearly. What's worse is you can see that most of it has been there for weeks, with some poor sid given the job of trying to clean it off. What happens when people know there's not the slightest chance of being caught.rick_chasey said:I’m not bulshitting, that’s the train I’m on right now. > my photo
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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It does seem to be worse on your route. Pre-pandemic I was travelling by train two or three times a week on two different routes and whilst it was far from perfect (I started catching an earlier Bristol train as my preferred one was over-crowded to the point where people were left on the platform due to only having 3 or 4 coaches) I certainly didn’t have issues like you seem to get every time you travel. I’ve done a few train commutes to Bristol post-pandemic and they were generally fine other than there being fewer services.rick_chasey said:Honestly, I know you lot think I whine a lot about the trains but honestly, they are really bad and they once weren’t.
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so growing up they were pretty reliable. Dad took it fine, was never home late because of the trains.
The year I moved back to Cambridge was 2018 the year they introduced the new thameslink line and that was a disaster - of the £5k annual ticket I got £1.5k back in delay repay. Total disaster.
Sorted it out by 2019 and until the pandemic it was largely fine. A delay or two a month.
Post Corona it's back to 2018, but they've wised up. They're much quicker to cancel the train and much quicker to pull the train entirely from the timetable.
It's almost like in the post-corona world they're not obliged to run a set number of services. They just run what they like.
You turn up at the foyer of Cambridge station and it's pretty normal to see half a dozen people staring at the boards scratching their heads. Have heard more than once "where is my train?"0 -
I wonder if it's something to do with where the rolling stock is parked up overnight.
I presume Bristol and Cambridge are served by 2 different operators.
[Great this privatisation sh1t is innit?
We really need the French to invade us again. It's been a while. Then we get gummint owned energy and rail provision].
100,000 NHS workers needed. Nothing to do with Brexit of course. The meejia don't bother mentioning that.
I see Rees smugg put his foot in it. Time he was strung up on a lamp post.
[Thursday rant over]
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Only finding out that the lid wasn't properly secured on the muesli container when I went to tip it up to fill my breakfast bowl.0
