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Residents Outsmart Waze Users

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Waze is a crowdsourced app which allows users to help each other in reporting traffic, accidents, hazards and even act as a social tool. With it’s popularity,Waze helps thousands of motorists travel to and from work everyday.

What Waze does is help route drivers to their destinations via the fastest route taking into account the traffic reports and hazard reports from other users.

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Now TMZ has an exclusive story about a group of residents in LA who got so pissed off thatWaze kept routing traffic through their neighbourhood that they decided to do something about it.

Residents in that neighbourhood has decided to constantly report heavy traffic on their residential roads hence causingWaze not to route motorists through the neighbourhood. Talk about a smart thing to do!

[Source: TMZ]