Is Android Auto/Waze Directionally Challenged?

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Seriously - It really seems the two working together are directionally-challenged.

I run Waze on my drive in to work every day (because....TRAFFIC!). But, I've noticed that the turn-by-turn arrow on my instrument cluster displays a wrong direction, occasionally. For example: Waze on the nav screen with show a RIGHT TURN but my instrument cluster will show a LEFT TURN. It's very strange. I have no other obvious issues with it and it is not consistent - it doesn't show the wrong turn at the same intersection all the time.

One thing that just came to mind that I have not tried yet: Waze relies on Google Maps (likely on the backend only) but I have not tried to replicate this on Google Maps. Could be an interesting test to try.

Note: stand-alone Waze doesn't have any issues with providing proper turn-by-turn directions and it doesn't appear that one is presenting the immediate next turn while the other is displaying a future turn.

Has anyone else seen this?
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I've noticed the same thing. Mainly for roundabouts (very common in Australia) where if I am going straight ahead it shows a hard turn to the left, almost a u-turn.
 
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Yea - we have our fair share of roundabouts as well where I live, but, these don't seem to throw Waze at all. They are properly depicted in the app and display properly. I'm actually referring to basic turns - left showing as right turn and vice-versa. It's really strange.

Driving around this week with Google Maps, I have not seen such an issue.
 

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Waze doesn't like some kind of roundabouts... Google Maps does them OK in our car.
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