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Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 01:07:15 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:35:20 2016. You don't know for sure if WAZE could have helped in this situation. You are purely speculating.Wrong. We are speaking from experience. I use WAZE and I don't get unnecessarily stuck in traffic jams. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 01:08:12 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:35:20 2016. Why weren't the 1200 others who were stuck at that moment using WAZE. Everyone was too dumb?No, because they are ignorant or don't have cellphones with data plans or their data plans are too small. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 01:14:54 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:49:11 2016. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jul 31 09:05:09 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 00:31:24 2016. And that's not an insult. It's advice. |
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Posted by Cornell Park on Sun Jul 31 09:08:46 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 00:38:10 2016. Thanks. |
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Posted by Cornell Park on Sun Jul 31 09:10:12 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 01:06:13 2016. Thanks. |
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Posted by Cornell Park on Sun Jul 31 09:28:21 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:49:11 2016. This is why trusting just the signs can be useless. If the person updating them is away from the desk, you see old information. If you use anything in addition, you improved your chances.Sit in traffic because someone is sitting on the crapper, or double check? Your call. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 11:14:21 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Jul 31 09:05:09 2016. Exactly. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 11:16:46 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Cornell Park on Sun Jul 31 09:08:46 2016. You're welcome. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 11:17:02 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Cornell Park on Sun Jul 31 09:10:12 2016. You're welcome. |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 31 11:41:39 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:35:20 2016. If the app worked as designed and you had turned it on as you started driving, it almost certainly would have taken you on a route avoiding the BQE. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Mon Aug 1 09:20:44 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:35:20 2016. bump for BrooklynBus |
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Posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 09:26:07 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:35:20 2016. Everyone was too dumb?Or something. I don't use Waze. (Though I keep my car tuned to a radio station with traffic reports.) |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Mon Aug 1 09:27:31 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 09:26:07 2016. I don't use Waze.Why not? |
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Posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 10:02:51 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by terRAPIN station on Mon Aug 1 09:27:31 2016. I don't use my phone while driving. And my car doesn't have any kind of built-in device that could run Waze. (I assume a recent GPS system could run Waze, but I don't have a GPS system in my car.) |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Aug 1 10:16:36 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 10:02:51 2016. You wouldn't be using your phone while driving. It would just be there. |
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Posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 10:29:44 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Aug 1 10:16:36 2016. What would be where? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Aug 1 12:41:27 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 10:29:44 2016. The phone. It can talk. You don't have to touch it. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Mon Aug 1 13:03:01 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 10:02:51 2016. I don't use my phone while driving.See what Spider-Pig said. And my car doesn't have any kind of built-in device that could run Waze. (I assume a recent GPS system could run Waze, but I don't have a GPS system in my car.)Not a GPS system, but rather the car's infotainment system. If your car is Apple CarPlay or Android Auto compatible, then your car can display some of the content/apps from your phone right on the car's display screen. As of now, I do not believe Apple has allowed WAZE to be part of CarPlay but I do believe Google has allowed or is allowing WAZE to become part of Android Auto. |
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Posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 14:22:49 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by terRAPIN station on Mon Aug 1 13:03:01 2016. Not a GPS system, but rather the car's infotainment system.Heh. Mine is called a radio. (Exaggeration. It has a built-in CD player too.) |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Aug 1 14:27:58 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 14:22:49 2016. A CD player. How quaint. |
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Posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 14:33:22 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Aug 1 14:27:58 2016. Indeed. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Mon Aug 1 18:43:57 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by AlM on Mon Aug 1 14:22:49 2016. That's the type of infotainment system you have. A plain radio is a subset. |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Aug 1 23:10:11 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 29 21:35:20 2016. Two points of reference from drives I took yesterday.1. At one point, the app informed me as I was driving that it changed my route to a better one though my ETA would remain unchanged. 2. Later in the day, there was a heavy traffic jam due to an overturned vehicle. Waze routed me through a neighborhood paralleling the arterial road I would have used otherwise and avoided at least a half mile of traffic moving at an average speed of 3 MPH. I only found out the reason for the abnormally slow traffic about 10 minutes AFTER I had reached my destination. So yes, Waze almost certainly would have helped you avoid the construction zone on the BQE. |
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Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Aug 2 09:12:49 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Aug 1 23:10:11 2016. Well, I downloaded WAZE and tried unsuccessfully to get it to work for a half hour. First I tried it inside my house where my internet connection was working properly and it told me I had to be outdoors to use the app. Then it took a picture of where I was standing and told me to enter my On my way! bed drive which I did. Then it said they will inform me when it was time for me to leave. I was scheduled to,leave in five minutes and it didn't inform me. So I had to start all over again and it said it couldn't connect me to the server. Then I finally just gave up.I also don't like why your phone must be connected your entire trip and you have to use mobile data. I was also unsure if they can monitor your location even when the app is off which made me uncomfortable. I could not get it to start giving me verbal instructions but at one point was able to see a map and it routed my entire trip along the BQE but at that time I wasn't ready to leave anyway. When I tried again later, it wouldn't work again so I just took Woodhaven and had no problems. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Tue Aug 2 09:54:52 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Aug 2 09:12:49 2016. First I tried it inside my house where my internet connection was working properly and it told me I had to be outdoors to use the app. Then it took a picture of where I was standing and told me to enter my On my way! bed drive which I did. Then it said they will inform me when it was time for me to leave. I was scheduled to,leave in five minutes and it didn't inform me. So I had to start all over again and it said it couldn't connect me to the server. Then I finally just gave up.It's nowhere near that complicated. I also don't like why your phone must be connected your entire trip and you have to use mobile data.That's the whole point of it! So it's able to reroute you on the fly, in real time, as traffic conditions change!!! |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Aug 2 17:15:28 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by terRAPIN station on Tue Aug 2 09:54:52 2016. So tell me why I was having all that trouble connecting and getting it to work. I will try again but if it gives me trouble again I won't bother any more. I will just check google maps traffic before I leave. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 2 18:26:39 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Aug 2 09:12:49 2016. I never heard of a requirement that it only be used outdoors. At least the initial setup only happens once. As for the leave alert, you don't actually have to use it. If you set a destination and then leave it alone, when you're ready to go, open the app and it asks you if you're still enroute.As for it monitoring your location when you are offline, if you have an iPhone, you can quit the app by double-clicking the home button and then swiping up on the app. I don't know what to do on Android. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Tue Aug 2 18:57:39 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Aug 2 17:15:28 2016. Fuggifiknow! There are thousands of permutations of operating system, device, network provider, and signal strength that could affect performance. I very rarely have any problems with WAZE. Also, you may have touched the wrong buttons. You need to practice with it a bit. Don't use it in your house on wifi. Use it out on the street on cell data. |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Tue Aug 2 21:03:47 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 2 18:26:39 2016. On newer android, hold the home button and you will get a 3D alt-tab type screen, where you can then hit the x to close any app you want to close.On all android it can be done the awkward way via the application manager. |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Aug 2 21:57:45 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 2 18:26:39 2016. Waze doesn't work well (or at all) if your phone's GPS can't pinpoint your location, which is often the case when you are in a building. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Tue Aug 2 22:14:31 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Aug 2 21:57:45 2016. If you're in a building you should still be able to get a decent location via your WiFi. |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Wed Aug 3 06:54:16 2016, in response to The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jul 25 10:03:43 2016. Whenever I'm about to drive somewhere, I open Google Maps and check the traffic layer first. I (generally) zoom out so my origin and destination are in the same frame, I make an observation then choose my travel route, it really is a time saver. You would have seen the dark red line and avoided the BQE. You may have even seen that the Van Wyck Expressway was clear (which actually does occur, haha) |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 07:11:21 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by N6 Limited on Wed Aug 3 06:54:16 2016. Traffic conditions can change/deteriorate quickly. |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Wed Aug 3 08:05:49 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 07:11:21 2016. Correct, which is why I have a car mount for my phone and keep maps open. Many times traffic conditions changed and I was able to jump off the highway right before the delay. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Wed Aug 3 08:16:46 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by N6 Limited on Wed Aug 3 08:05:49 2016. Correct, which is why I have a car mount for my phone and keep maps open. Many times traffic conditions changed and I was able to jump off the highway right before the delay.WhoA WHOA WHOA. That sounds very unsafe! Do you have your phone set up so that the screen never automatically shuts off, even when you're not using it? And how do you look ahead of where you are without touching the screen? Do you keep it zoomed way out? Does your maps app not snap back to your current location (some do, some don't)? Why would you want to have to manually interpret a traffic map when a navigation application (that takes real-time traffic conditions into account) could do it for you and verbally instruct you on how to proceed?!?!? |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:32:07 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Jul 31 00:38:10 2016. "Wrong. That is not ridiculous at all"So you are saying that most drivers do use WAZE? |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:35:39 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jul 30 13:48:10 2016. Metro is not backed up onto the highway because there is a very long entrance/exit ramp at Metropolitan which does not exist at Wythe. So even though Metro exit traffic is never backed up onto the highway, there are far more card exiting at Metro than at Wythe meaning longer exit times at Metro more often than at Wythe. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:37:34 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by TerrApin Station on Tue Aug 2 18:57:39 2016. Tell me why WAZE needs to monitor your location just because you have the app installed even though you are not using it. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:43:36 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 2 18:26:39 2016. Well all I am telling you is the message told me to go outdoors.And when I did not get an alert to leave and I turned on the app again, I had to start from scratch and renter the trip and then it couldn't get a location. Nothing asked me if I was enroute. I also installed WAZE on my iPad and didn't open the app for a week. I get a message which said do I still want to allow WAZE to monitor my location which means it has been doing this for the past week. I went into settings and changed "always" to never. But if I want to use it again, I will have to change it back to "always" and remember to change it again when I close the app which is a pain. There is no option to use it fir thus trip only. |
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Posted by terRAPIN station on Wed Aug 3 12:47:28 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnight, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:32:07 2016. No, I am not saying that. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 3 13:04:12 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:37:34 2016. I do not think it does that. It stops monitoring your location within a few minutes of being in the background if you are stationary. At least that is my understanding. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 3 13:07:32 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:43:36 2016. I saw that message this morning so now I know what you mean.Did it have a map of your location? In which case the message is just about getting a more accurate fix. Assuming that it's in the ballpark, it will give you a route. That is weird. Whenever I quit the app in the middle of a trip, or even save it for later, it always prompts me if I'm still going to wherever I set as the destination. You can turn off Waze from Background App Refresh. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 3 14:29:04 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:43:36 2016. See this linkIt explains how to turn off Waze from sending your location in the background. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 18:14:32 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 12:37:34 2016. ?????How do I know the premise of your question is true? |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 3 18:22:35 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 18:14:32 2016. It is. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 19:02:12 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 18:14:32 2016. Because my IPad asked me if I still want to allow WAZE to monitor my location although I had not opened the app in a week. Also the choices are "always" and "never". There is nothing about only when app is actives |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 19:18:09 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Aug 3 19:02:12 2016. Just because you get that message doesn't mean it actually IS monitoring your location nonstop while you think you have the app closed! Andre even if it is, it doesn't mean it NEEDS to, it just might want to. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 3 21:20:42 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 19:18:09 2016. I only partially agree. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Wed Aug 3 21:34:45 2016, in response to Re: The BQE was a mess on Saturday night after midnigh, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 3 21:20:42 2016. Well that's one thing we've got. |
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