So the positive is I love the 'social' concept of the app where drivers can report issues on the road to one another and even do neat things like thank one another. This aspect is so unique and cool its hard for me to walk away from Waze completely. That said I'm not sure if I'm atypical or what, but I use Waze primarily on Android Auto and this is where my issues mainly are. For instance I note that if you use the app directly on your smart phone device you get every basic feature you could want in a GPS app. You can search for end points by business type (gas station, food etc), there is integrated google search available from standard search bar where, I'm told you can even report traffic conditions with voice. You can't do any of that on the Android Auto version of the app. With the AA version of Waze you only get access to the basic search bar if the parking break is active (at least in my '06 Town and Country with Panasonic double din radio installed). This search bar only lets you type in what destination you want, it won't allow for category searches with a simple tab of the button (ie as you can do with a TomTom or Google Maps with extreme ease). There is also no direct integration with google voice, meaning while you can ask google voice for destinations and have it hand off to waze (ok, but wait a sec on why this remains a problem) you absolutely don't get to report traffic conditions with voice. Now not affecting my overall rating but certainly compounding my issues with waze are the following: - Activating google voice at all frequently causes the app to start flashing black and not infrequently causes it to totally crash. - Waze is particularly sensitive to changes in network conditions, IE it's VERY bad at switching from wifi to 4G for instance. - Task switching to many common AA apps (Sirius XM for instance) can cause Waze to either simply forget you have a destination inputted effectively cancelling your navigation, or, again, cause the app to crash. - Frequently when waze does lose network it loses so hard you have to unplug from AA and kill all open processes in order to make sure Waze starts fresh I'm not basing my rating on these issues because I'm actively working with waze support to debug some of this. Having said that lets say for arguments sake waze support totally resolves all technical glitches with the app. That still leaves Waze just insanely nuetered even compared to the experience you have directly on the phone screen and certainly compared to just launching google maps (IE just basic search for end point by category). There's no reason for this to be the case since *clearly the app already has that feature*, they just didn't accommodate for any of that in the AA UI. So since basically all of my waze user experience is via Android Auto on my panisonic radio (or in my Pacifica with its 10.1 screen) I have to down rate waze considerably. Insane choices were made, as far as I can tell to focus on a minimalistic UI. Ironically I think minimalistic is a good thing, but only to a point.