Do You Make Navigation Systems?

If so I have a request.

Today we went to the mall - there's a new Lego store (TLDR it is the same as the other Lego stores).  I love using Waze to navigate.  I use it on long car trips, but I also use it around town to try to get around traffic snags.  Pittsburgh often has delays around tunnel traffic and Waze has fairly reliably helped know when to get off the Parkway and when to stay on.

At least we think so, since there's nothing to compare to it is hard to know.

Anyway, we're off to the mall today and Waze decides to cut across the triangle up close to our neighborhood rather than running down the side and cutting across closer to downtown - the latter would be our STOP.  Down one street, cut across another, down the side street... all for what appears to be an effort to miss like four traffic lights.

So here's what I want: I want a control that allows me to set the minimum amount of time saved before taking me off the "normal" route.  I always have this suspicion that the algorithm is taking me five blocks out of my way to save 30 seconds.  It would be nice to have some way to tell it that in a 25 minute drive, if it can't make more than a 5 minute difference it should just stay on the default route.

Call it an "impatience factor."

Seems like it is an even bigger deal on longer drives.  We go back and forth to Bloomington a lot and that trip has more than one interstate bypasses around cities in West Virginia and Ohio.  Waze nearly always suggests the bypass over the direct route and we always wonder if taking the long way around is saving us any significant amount of time.  So maybe in a 6 hour drive if there aren't 20 minutes to be saved the route could stay on the main drag.

The problem is that sometimes there really is time to be saved.  Sometimes on that long drive there are significant traffic backups going through town, sometimes in town drives there are accidents or big backups for events or something, so you can't know just how big a deal the re-route is.  Maybe that's another feature.  Waze has voice commands.  Maybe when it is telling you to do something counter-intuitive you should be able to just ask: "just how much time is this going to save me?"  Then when it says "this route saves two minutes due to heavy traffic" you can just keep going the way you were going to go anyway.

Could call that feature "back seat driver."

It's just a suggestion.