BATON ROUGE, LA – An area driver reportedly spent an entire green light staring at Waze, trying to determine why traffic had suddenly come to a complete stop, only to discover several increasingly aggressive honks later that the delay was being caused by the vehicle they were sitting in.
Witnesses said the driver immediately assumed there had to be a wreck on Airline, a disabled vehicle, or at least someone attempting an ill-advised last-second merge across three lanes.
“Nobody in Baton Rouge expects traffic to actually move,” one nearby motorist said. “The second it stops, your first instinct is to check Waze instead of looking through the windshield.”
By the time the driver finished zooming in and out of the map searching for the mysterious backup, the light had turned yellow, then red, successfully trapping everyone behind them for another full signal cycle.
Traffic analysts say Baton Rouge commuters have become so dependent on navigation apps that many now instinctively check their phones anytime traffic slows, even when they’re the first vehicle in line.
City officials are reportedly encouraging Waze to add a new alert that simply reads, “You’re looking for the traffic. The traffic is currently you.”
Drivers behind the vehicle immediately confirmed the report by laying on their horns and updating the incident as a “major delay.”
