Lane Guidance
While using Waze on highways lately, I have begun to think that having the ability to see what lane becomes the off ramp would be great, especially in complex city interchanges.
Portuguese: Estava usando o Waze em rodovias e comecei a pensar que seria ótimo ter a capacidade de ver qual pista pegar, especialmente em trevos complexos dentro das cidades.
Spanish: Últimamente me he dado cuenta que al utilizar waze en capitales se hace muy necesario que waze indique cual carril de una calle, avenida o autopista, llega a ser una rampa, especialmente en complejos intercambios.
Great news! The Lane Guidance feature is now available in Waze. Install the latest app version to check it out.
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Tyler VanOrder commented
Waze should add lane by lane guidance showing what lanes to be in on the map as well as the ui pop-up(similar to Apple Maps and Google maps) With wazes crowd sourced traffic reporting this could be incredibly powerful especially if lane reporting is implemented afterwards.
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C E commented
Sometimes there are roads with multiple lanes and certain lanes lead to certain exits, and it can be hard to change at the last minute. So, when you have the “Keep straight on” instruction with the multiple white arrows, maybe one could be blue or something to indicate that that is the ideal lane to be in for your route. Could also be helpful so that if you’re making a right turn at a light and immediately have to turn left once on that street, it would tell you to be in the left most right turn lane.
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Doc P commented
Currently two or more lanes highlight when coming to a turn on navigation, which is great but can you make designated the lane flash as well? Ex: you're about to make a left turn & your destination is on the right side of the street .03mi. Highlight left side turning lane but make right side turning lane flash so driver won't turn left & then have to merge into right lane.(They'll already be in correct lane to turn into destination) 👍🙏
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Anonymous commented
When the upcoming turn is to be made from either of multiple lanes, it would be tremendously helpful to know which direction I am turning next, especially when the next turn is within a half mile. Many times if I get in the left lane to turn, I find out I have to get in the right lane to make the next turn in a few tenths of a mile. This becomes a risky change of lanes to be able to make the next turn. You could put an arrow on the screen or simply a dot in the top left or right corner of the current direction (top left of screen area). Even better would be to color code the dot to be red if the next turn is within a half mile and green if the next turn is more than a half mile.
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Kenneth
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It would be very helpful to be able to specify lanes.
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Burny0077 commented
Can I go one further and say that since this only really affects those that need to give way at the intersection, that the instruction states that?
So, "At the intersection, give way, then continue/turn left/turn right"? -
Mat Mitchell commented
Agreed
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Titchy_
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In the UK, we get lots of URs from users who expect some kind of warning when they are about to approach a crossroads (intersection) where the route is to continue. Depending on which road has priority they may or may not have to give way (yield). This has been debated many a time on the forum and the opinion has been split between those who place full responsibility on the driver to read the road and those who agree to an extent.
This issue is mostly seen in the countryside where often you will get a 60mph road needing to give way. There are typically no traffic lights at these junctions and give way signage can be obscured by overgrown trees/hedges. Worst case, it could lead to an accident because someone has followed the purple line on the map and in the absence of any instruction, failed to give way.
The rules from a country level have always been to leave it as it is, unless it is a particularly dangerous crossroads where some editors will add a 'continue' TIO. We debated whether the 'continue' TIO would work but that also doesn't help if you need to give way, so it is not implemented often. In the end, we go back to the user and politely tell them that they should not rely on their sat nav to the point where it distracts from the job of driving.
What I am proposing is that a "at the crossroads/intersection, continue" TIO be added to the list. Or words to that effect. It is simple to implement and I believe would be effective in limiting the amount of URs we get, ultimately keeping the customer happy.
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Mircea Popa commented
There are situations in which one of the lanes in your driving direction is ending, for example when you reach the top of a hill (a two lane road becomes a one lane road in your driving direction). it would be great to have it signalized the distance in which the number of lanes is reducing and which lane is ending, so you can switch the lane in time and safe, if your lane is ending soon.
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dosti jem commented
The waze need to improve the maps better specially when u take the exit and showing wich lane to stay in roundabout and the colour of the maps it's a bit bigger i went to wrong way once only because i didn't understand in wich lane to stay and i went in wrong way, google maps tomtom sygic and herewe go shows in wich lane go stay and the waze wich one has +100M people who downloaded the waze but y guys need to work more to add more options for the drivers and they not going to be confused anymore , thanks for ur time and hope waze it will get better and better
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Liam Gawthorpe commented
This is important and should be added ASAP!, it will reduce accidents in city centres and towns
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uri ryce
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This is very good idea, I had the same idea too, because multiple times I did a mistake on what lane I should be because this future is not in the app.
Waze please add this future it's not complax to add it at all -
William Lou
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Highlight which lane to take whenever the exit is nearer. Sometimes when multiple lanes highlighted to go straight and afterward exit ahead only 100m, taking the most right lanes (in Asia) kinda impossible to make the correct exit.
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Anonymous
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I would vote for this feature. Indicating the correct lane, ahead of immediate multiple lanes would be more helpful.
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Anonymous
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I would vote for this feature. Indicating the correct lane, ahead of immediate multiple lanes would be more helpful.
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YogiJB
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In a recent meeting, there was mention of this being rolled out in the next months.
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Scoota - Volunteer Waze Editor
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Have upvoted for this as I have lost count how many UR's I respond to where the wazer is after this feature.
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YogiJB
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As a volunteer map editor, I get this request very often!
Predictive lane guidance would be highly appreciated in dense environments where intersections and exits are very close one after the other. -
Norbert Kocsis
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If there are multiple lanes in the lane guidance (example: you are turning left and there are two lanes turning left), mark the ideal lane as green which is the optimal. So you will be in the the right lane if there is another turning section within a short distance.
This would be helpful to prevent late lane changes in a heavy traffic situation.
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O_wenn1
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I know Lane guidance has been add but I think it needs to be updated. On most roads it doesn't tell me which lanes to be in and I think it should tell me on every road and it should stay on your screen at the top. I'm a new driver and it's really hard when I come to bigger roads and it doesn't tell me. Please vote people