It would be great to make Waze a built in app that comes shipped with Android and ready to be used right out of the box. Waze is owned by Google and something like that may be possible. This will make users in countries where Waze is not famous know that the app exists and make them at least give it a try.

If this is not possible then maybe establish partnerships with smartphone companies to make Waze available as a built in app with their version of Android.

Another suggestion is to rename the Waze app to something like Google Waze to convince Google fans who don’t know that Waze is a Google product that it is and make them at least give it a try. In my country people are so obsessed with Google Maps just because it has Google written on it.

How to Help Emergency Vehicles To Reach Their Destination Faster
Waze should have a new mode of operation for priority vehicles (buses, taxis, ambulances, firefighters, police...), because only these vehicles are authorized to travel on priority lanes.
A special Emergency Sub-mode should be added for rescue and police vehicles. These vehicles have authorization, in case of emergency, to activate their warning lights and horns, to drive on contraflow lanes, on sidewalks...
Emergency vehicle drivers shall be able to enter this sub-mode after a secure identification and certified authorization mechanism
On the Waze screen of all the drivers in the vicinity, add a flashing mark of the emergency vehicle location and the direction of its progression. In case of collision hazard, activate an audio alert. This will allow the drivers to clear the way to the emergency vehicles.
On priority lanes, the central computer could recommend the public transport vehicles drivers (including trolley drivers) either to stay in their station or to reach a station or parking place and leave place for the emergency vehicle to move forwards.
When two (or more) emergency vehicles reach the same road junction on a collision course, the central controller should inform all the relevant emergency car drivers about the situation and set priorities for crossing the intersection, and when possible, define priorities.

You will likely want to hear an idea that will expand your audience and retain your current customer base.

Recently, I embarked on an excursion from Orlando, FL to Charleston, SC. It’s a fairly short road trip, but within those 6 hours, I wondered to myself how great it would be to see more than just the highway in front of me and the trees that lined the road. I quickly grew exhausted from seeing the same paved road, white lines, and billboard signs over and over again.

I turned to my boyfriend with two hours left on our trip and said, “There should be an app, or a feature on the GPS, that allows a road trip option.”

And that’s how I thought of Waze RoadTrip. An option on the Waze app that allows users to choose between a straight shot to their destination, or the option to take a trip with interesting routes and unique stops along the way.

When a user selects the RoadTrip option, Waze would alert them to stops for unique things to do, highly rated local places to eat, historical areas, as well as the closest rest stops and the usual stops such as gas stations, just to name a few ideas.

Furthermore, Waze would crowdsource from users who would add their own favorite stops and interesting facts about the places they’re driving through.

Finally, Wazers could check in to these places, so that others might choose to meet with them based on their mutual interests and close proximity at any given moment.

I realize this idea requires an investment by Waze and likely an integration with other existing platforms that offer a similar experience but require users to use separate applications. Waze RoadTrip will be worth your investment in creating a uniform platform that eases and pleases your user base.

I would like to discuss this, and several other ideas, that I believe will be very profitable to your company and require only imagination and understanding of user experience.

It's too bad Waze doesn't offer any of these functionalities for riders/bikers:
- deactivate traffic jams in the time calculation (or consider we are at around 50 km/h on these parts of the path)
- proposing winding/twisting roads with different levels, just like Tomtom and Garmin already do with their devices
- allowing to create more than one step point to get the perfect itinerary
- allowing the load of external files (such as .gpx for example) to create roadbooks on our computer (with Google Maps or else) and then send it to our smartphone.

In brief, just a few things that would make Waze the perfect companion for motorcyclists, which is far from the case nowadays!

Today we were driving on the highway in Hungary. We still had some 270 km of highway left, but Waze told us to exit. We know the road very well and thought it was a mistake. Actually there was a traffic jam ahead and we lost 30 minutes.
It would be awesome if, in case Waze modifies a segment of a route because of a traffic jam (or something else), it would notify you and add the reason for it.
Ex. "Exit the highway in 400m because of upcoming traffic jam, saving 30 minutes."

Note that I am not talking about a complete reroute, but about "weird" decisions for segments of a route:
Ex. Use highway H1 for 200km, then exit for 20 km and then hop back on H1 (because of a traffic jam, for example)

Hope it helps!
Thank you!

EVERY state in the US has a law that requires motorists to act accordingly when approaching a stopped evergency vehicle on the highway to reduce the risk of hitting the stop vehicle or personnel working outside of their vehicle. The laws are commonly referred to “Slow Down Move Over” laws. Although there is an option in Waze to report police or a stopped vehicle in general, adding an option for a stopped emergency vehicle with a voice alert of “Watch out, emergency vehicle stopped ahead, slow down or move over 1 lane when approaching and passing” will further help educate drivers about the existence of the law and how to abide by it. The alert for police reports is “Police reported ahead” or for a general stopped vehicle “watch out vehicle stopped ahead”. Why not utilize the existing technology and features of Waze to spread the awareness of a commonly misunderstood law that results in many first responders and highway workers being struck, injured or killed every year. It can be easily implemented and will result in saving countless lives while providing an excellent learning opportunity for motorists.