Think I'm the only person who does not like Waze - have tried it a lot of times over the years and always found the routing r****** and following it to/from work would always take me ways longer than ones I know myself - glad it seems to work for everyone else though!

The only downside of Waze is that when an incident occurs, blocking the road, all Waze users get diverted the same way and can cause congestion - but the same downside can be levelled at all the other satnavs.

A sort of 'lemmings' scenario? I used to get this a lot when travelling to Stevenage for work, choosing either the A1 from junctions 8 to 7 or going through the town.

Other than on a Friday (no brainer - A1), often just as bad as each other, made worse by everyone getting the same satnav diversionary message after an 'incident' and all switching at the same time, resulting in chaos.

Just as bad on Google Maps in my experience. I might try Waze in the future - I looked at it in the past and it seemed not-so-sophisticated.

What would be good is for useful information on incidents to be relayed so we users can make decisions ourselves - e.g. whether its an accident of the type that the road is blocked and will be for the foreseeable future, as opposed to a minor shunt or broken down vehicle where they can reach the hard shoulder / get off the road quickly without leaving dangerous debris on the road that needs to be cleared and not cause much disruption.