after reading the MANY posts about how crappy the Valentine One is, I decided to use this ap during my trip over the weekend from Tampa to Knoxville. For the record, I tried to also use my V1, but it showed 2 alerts from the time I started up our Denali until I turned it off in disgust a few hours later. I had turned down the volume, thinking we might be able to see additional warnings above 2. But I digress.
I have used the WAZE ap before on my iphone, but when you're driving, it's not as good, as you can't watch the screen continuously. This time, with my wife as navigator, we used it quite successfully. You just download the ap, open it up, register, and you're ready to go. I plugged in the destination, and it did the rest.
First of all, I was SHOCKED at how many other users we encountered along the way. We were going north on I 75, and I doubt we went more than a minute at a time without passing other WAZE users. Usually, there were multiple other users headed in the opposite direction. We only saw one officer of the law during the whole trip that we didn't already know was there, and we watched him pull into the median and set up to catch the next speeder. We of course posted his location, saving many other users behind us. During the trip up, I was leery of its capabilities, and watched my speed pretty closely, since the V1 wasn't working.
The trip back to Florida, however, is a different story. We left early, so there weren't many users on the road yet. By the time we hit Atlanta though, the roads were busy, and the WAZE users were everywhere. During this trip, we saw 2 separate police cars that weren't listed. Both were getting in position, and we posted them. I'm not kidding when I say that we were warned about at least 15 cops on the return home. Granted, a few times the officer wasn't there anymore, but only a few. The other times, that ap saved my bacon, as we were in a hurry to get home.
Disclosure - my parents were about 30 minutes behind us on this trip, and my dad complained that there were too many false positives. I would suggest, and did, that there were FAR fewer false positives than with any detector I've ever used.
Next time we drive to Miami (from Tampa), I'm going to have my wife use this ap, and see if I can break my record on the way down.
I highly suggest the use of this ap, if you have a navigator with you. It also has a bunch of really great other features, but you can read about them on the ap itself. It's free. Enjoy.
I have used the WAZE ap before on my iphone, but when you're driving, it's not as good, as you can't watch the screen continuously. This time, with my wife as navigator, we used it quite successfully. You just download the ap, open it up, register, and you're ready to go. I plugged in the destination, and it did the rest.
First of all, I was SHOCKED at how many other users we encountered along the way. We were going north on I 75, and I doubt we went more than a minute at a time without passing other WAZE users. Usually, there were multiple other users headed in the opposite direction. We only saw one officer of the law during the whole trip that we didn't already know was there, and we watched him pull into the median and set up to catch the next speeder. We of course posted his location, saving many other users behind us. During the trip up, I was leery of its capabilities, and watched my speed pretty closely, since the V1 wasn't working.
The trip back to Florida, however, is a different story. We left early, so there weren't many users on the road yet. By the time we hit Atlanta though, the roads were busy, and the WAZE users were everywhere. During this trip, we saw 2 separate police cars that weren't listed. Both were getting in position, and we posted them. I'm not kidding when I say that we were warned about at least 15 cops on the return home. Granted, a few times the officer wasn't there anymore, but only a few. The other times, that ap saved my bacon, as we were in a hurry to get home.
Disclosure - my parents were about 30 minutes behind us on this trip, and my dad complained that there were too many false positives. I would suggest, and did, that there were FAR fewer false positives than with any detector I've ever used.
Next time we drive to Miami (from Tampa), I'm going to have my wife use this ap, and see if I can break my record on the way down.
I highly suggest the use of this ap, if you have a navigator with you. It also has a bunch of really great other features, but you can read about them on the ap itself. It's free. Enjoy.
