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Google-owned navigation app Waze has added a motorcycle-specific routing feature. It offers routes optimized for riders, along with warnings for potholes and other hazards, and more accurate arrival time estimates. It's a practical upgrade for riders who use their phone as a navigation aid.
Phone navigation has, in the end, always been built to car standards. Waze adding dedicated two-wheeler routing and road-hazard warnings is genuinely practical, from Akira's perspective. A single pothole can be truly dangerous, so knowing ahead of time carries real value. Using a phone as gear just got a bit smarter.
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Waze offering motorcycle routing now, huh - used to be we'd just shove a paper map in the tank bag.
Even if ETA accuracy improves, how much does it actually account for lane-splitting or motorcycle speeds?
Can you actually use the motorcycle mode on this in Japan?
How's this actually different from Google Maps? Feels like it's just claiming to be moto-optimized without proof.
If motorcycle-oriented routing prioritizes mountain passes, I'd definitely want to use it for touring.
Pothole warnings are genuinely helpful, they're really hard to spot at night.
