Waze bicycle alert feature
Waze bicycle alert feature
For use with waze navigation app
This feature would Alert wazers to upcoming bicyclist in their path much like other alerts (police,potholes). Having drivers report bicyclists location in the same manner as other alerts would be of little use as bicyclist generally travel between 10-20mph. The bicyclist would need to log into the app and identify them self as a bicyclist or as a bicyclist for the next trip. The bicyclist location would then be shown in Waze as a bicyclist and would provide an approaching driver with an alert. Some additional features would need to be added to stop reporting after no movement over a certain period and to prevent a bicyclist from getting in their car and driving while still in bicycle mode.
Chris
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kevin mccormack
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I think that this could easily save lives the cyclist would turn on the feature and the car would get an alert. Waze could turn it off based on what road the driver was on so as not to be an annoying feature. For example you would not want this on in downtown Boston since there would be many bikes but it would be great to have it outside of dense urban areas where drivers would be alerted of an upcoming cyclist. Please make this feature soon a friend just last month got hit and barely survived.
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Anonymous
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Please do this, it's life saving.
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Amitai Marcus
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you can also do that the hazard alert will only appear on interurban roads where cars go faster and you aren't expecting bicycle riders
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Amitai Marcus
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Great Idea!! Just saw the same idea written in Hebrew with 84979 votes!!!
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Hannah
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And for Motorbikes!
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Jay
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YES YES YES. If a cyclists was running WAZE on their phone in "Bicycle" mode, their position would become an alert to other drivers "Caution -Bike ahead". Build in some logic to control not having it in Bicycle mode while driving, such as test for sustained speed over 25mph or such.
As a cyclist I would even pay for such a feature. Allowing WAZE users to report a cyclist would be of little use since the target would move. Linking to our RIDEGPS or STRAVA apps would be another useful feature since they are already tracking our movements.
Please reach out to some of the larger Bike Clubs for more input. You could help save many lives.
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Anonymous
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Another possibility is to work with other apps like RoadID or Strava Beacon to connect real-time anonymous bike locations (giving the option in those apps to broadcast to Waze)
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Anonymous
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Exactly! I just had this same idea after another fatal accident. If we can't stop people from staring at their phones while driving, a "bike mode" would allow us to at least show up on their phone. I would appreciate this as a driver, and as a cyclist.
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Urko
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Excelent Idea. I´m a road cyclist and it would be a very usefull. Just implement an option to say waze that I´m a cycler and my wazer icon should change to a generic "cycler icon". Data used for waze statistics should be ignored when the "Cycler mode" is on. It would increase cyclist and car drivers security especially in narrow curvy roads. Please, think about this option it could save lives!!
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Anonymous
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Great idea
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B Smith
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Great idea
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Dan Gay
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Agree. Vote yes.
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Shawn Bernardi
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PLEASE!!!!!! Do this.
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Will Hibberts
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Vote Yes
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Jeff McCord commented
I love this idea!
Unless you get the jerk that searches out cyclists to harass.
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Mitch
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Lots of details but lots of lives could be saved
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Anonymous
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As a road cyclist, I can't give this idea enough votes!
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Anonymous
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GREAT IDEA to alert motorists to cyclists in some way.
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R Cappo
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It would work great for bicycle tourists. It might be cool to let one bicycle tourists know that there are other ones close by as well.
Just make sure it doesn't drain the battery very much.
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Anne
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This would be so amazing!