Tap the green direction at the top and it'll show you the next step and zoom the map forward to show you as well.

Google Maps - tap the direction bar at the top and it'll jump to the action you need to take, like take the exit. It'll stay on this view for all the steps until you tap it again to go back to your current position.

Also Waze allows you to set your vehicle "type" now so they clearly were getting ready to do this...

This. Waze let's you get alerts and report them without nav running. In fact, I never have navigation running in Waze.

Cool. If you had Waze running you'd have seen all the cops, potholes, fog, and stopped cars that Google didn't report. The reporting of police on the other side of the road is very helpful and totally missing on Google Maps.

This is exactly what I was saying I do. Glad someone else understood what I meant.

Ironically, I have my navigation set to German all the time. 😊

Yup, so I run both simultaneously. Waze on the phone screen, maps on the car screen. Only maps is ever used for navigation and I have my privacy set to never store trips / data and I don't have Maps logged in to a Google account. Waze forces you to login to get alerts or submit updates.

I specifically do not run waze in Android auto. I run Google Maps in Auto and Waze on the phone, simultaneously. That's the only way I can get alerts in Waze and useful navigation on the car screen. I never actually use Waze to navigate.

It sometimes does...but not nearly as reliably as Waze. Waze also shows you cops on the other side which is helpful b cause they often do loops.

The only feature that I still like in Waze is how awesome the reporting of speedtraps and hazards are compared to Google Maps. I usually have to have Android Auto running for navigation and Waze running to report/get hazard information.

As written... yes.

Probably meant to be written, "carrying two watermelons, one under each arm, ..."