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It's as important to me as air conditioning. I live in North Carolina.

indiekiduk said:

It used to be a priority for me until I tried it in a rental and realised its a bit of a gimmick and it would be more sensible to choose a car based on more traditional factors.

How are "traditional factors" and necessary extras mutually exclusive? That's dumbthink.

I buy a car that fits all my requirements - and they always start with the traditional factors. But once we've checked those off the list, the car better have A/C and CarPlay or I ain't buying it. I drive at least 2 hours a day.

I won't buy another car without CarPlay - I've gotten way to used to it in my car, so much so that I don't like it when I'm in another car without it.

maestro64 said:

Second and I disagree with the assessment that Waze arrival time is off, I have been using it for 5 yrs and it is dead on ever time. The only time I have seen it off is when traffic becomes  unpredictable. Waze claims they do not do this, but I think Waze learns your driving habits or style and tend to route you base on how you drive. In my case, my driving style is path of least red lights, even if is means going a little farther than the direct path. I rather keep driving than sit at red lights. Waze tend to route me this way unless I am in the new place altogether. Also avoiding red light means you are saving on gas. Because of this I tend to drive back road more often so less traffic and able to maintain a good speed. If Waze is not learning my driving habits it is definitely figure out my paths are fast since I am not spending 1 to 3 minutes sitting at red light or stuck in more traffic.

I know google maps and Apple maps does not do this, I have used them and they always want to route you the most direct way even though backroads could be much faster or easier to drive.

That's quite a claim that you can't substantiate nor is your mind going to be objective enough to have this sort of recall. You are obviously emotionally attached to the program, since you are assigning it behaviors that even the developers say are not there. That's why people collect data instead of relying on their own feelings - so the biases that come with feelings are taken out of the equation.

I used to love using Waze but gave it up when in its effort to find the quickest paths, it would constantly change my directions while I was driving. Doing so did not change the visible arrival times, so all this effort was to save 20 seconds or so. Don't take me off the local highway and through a neighborhood just to try to save a handful of seconds. Another time, it wanted to take me an extra 20 miles to save 2 minutes on a 2 hour trip, just because it was on a faster highway.

The sensitivity is set way too high for me to bother with Waze.

Aside: Apple always overestimates my trips home from work, as the last "8 minutes" of my drive takes 5.

Too political, lol. A handy strawman, but this started happening long before politics became a convenient excuse. The actual reason people stopped watching ESPN is because over time, their programming became irrelevant.

10 years ago, I would work from home and reroll SC all morning to catch things from the day before. Don't tell me you didn't ;-)
We would all watch the highlights. No one needs that now. The highlights are online 10 minutes after they happen. (Giannis dunk, anyone?)

Their blathering shows that started with "Cold Pizza" (remember that name?) that morphed into the First Take mess - which stays on the air only because their takes make it to social media and stirs up interest. There is virtually no one watching live TV at that point in the day, so the share is high with very few eyeballs.

In the past, the only real reasons to watch ESPN was SC(highlights) and live games and maybe some pregame shows. The rest has always been silly filler. Highlight shows are dead, filler isn't worth paying for, and live games aren't included.

Sounds like a winner. /sarcasm

I think you guys are misinterpreting the 50% of stores quote.
It's not 50% of the stores you go to, because you only go to 1 of each of these.
You may go to 1 or 2 McDonalds, but they have thousands of stores, which dwarfs the number of local BBQ joints.