Indication of clear route ahead (compared to normal traffic)
Where I live, there aren't that many Wazers. So often, heavy traffic on a stretch of road is not reported simply because no Wazer has been there yet (despite it being a busy main road).
Regularly I will detour around junctions because usually there is congestion, sometimes reported on Waze, sometimes not, it ends up being a gamble to detour or not.
However sometimes (and it seems randomly), there is no congestion. On the Waze client, the road is shown as clear, but like I said above, that often means no Wazer has been there yet to report traffic, so you just don't know.
What I'd like is an option of indicating that a road is clear, so you know someone has been there recently and there definitely is no congestion at the moment. Something like a tick could be shown on the map? Just to give you some confidence of the traffic conditions ahead.
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Rarebit
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Something what they call "scout" in Coyote e.g. someone has driven your road in the past x minutes (30 minutes or so).