Readers React: Don’t fret about Waze — either use it, or don’t

To the editor: It sounds to me like David L. Ulin lost an argument to his wife about the use of traffic app Waze and now is using the op-ed section as a megaphone to reinforce his own biases. What does he want, the app to disappear? (“Why I hate Waze,” Opinion, May 29)

While I’m not an Waze acolyte, I use it to bypass accidents on the freeway. It has saved me anywhere between 10 and 40 minutes in different situations.

While Ulin would prefer to sit in traffic absorbing the ambiance of slow-motion metal moving on asphalt, many would rather not. Here’s a suggestion: When Ulin is in the car with his wife, he should use Waze; when he is by himself, he shouldn’t.

Joey Liu , Newbury Park

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To the editor: Ulin’s esthetic revulsion to Waze has picnic qualities compared to the morass created in Laurel Canyon.

There, trucks and speeding drivers barrel down narrow Lookout Mountain Drive from West Hollywood to the San Fernando Valley, honking to disturb quiet neighborhoods, ignoring stop signs, bulldozing in front of anyone going the opposite direction and creating congestion equivalent to rush-hour freeways — all while children arrive at and leave a local elementary school.

Michael Haas, Los Angeles

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