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I use a radar detector AND Waze. Neither is perfect, but with the combo I've avoided tickets for years.

Radar detectors are less useful than they used to be with so many cops using lasers now, and laser detection is a lot less useful than radar detection.

Apple maps has never been a good experience for me. Because I can't set a real default mapping app I sometimes end up in it, the last time that happened it was nearly a block off from where I needed to be.
Why do people need radar detectors?

Fortunately in Australia they are illegal
 
i'm so very glad that apple implemented "en route incident reporting" for Maps
it was the one feature (crowdsourced speed check reporting) that made Waze unique.
(well if you don't count the 'pac man' game they started with to help map parts of the road network they didn't have data on; that was a fun way to kill time and waste gasoline)
since its release on Maps, more apple users can leave yet another google product behind

who do YOU trust more?
I'll stick with Waze thanks. They do what I want and for that I'll continue to support them.
Just so you remember some persecutive Apple were the company happy to take billions of dollars from Google with an open hand, you know that company they couldn't trust and promised to, "Go nuclear", on.
Perfect example of virtue signalling.
 
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