Adding Roadside Animal detection system to Waze as a feature will help reduce animal roadkill problem.
Roadside Animal Detection (RADAR) systems – A computerized signs with flashing light stripped when an animal breaks a light beam . These can reduce collisions with large animals. These alerts and captured images can also be sent to different GPS apps like Waze, so that drivers coming by on that road can be alerted through their GPS apps and slow down when crossing that area.
Thanks for your feedback. At this time, this doesn't fit on our roadmap, but we'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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Anonymous commented
Should a few "deer" button or group/muilt .
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Stavros commented
I live in the suburbs and deer are always being struck bc they hang at the sides of the road or jump or run into cars. Many times as I drive I may see them and not be able to alert the person ahead driving in the other direction or the person behind me I think we can save animals damage to cars and possible lives by making this an important feature for for people who live in rural or suburban areas.
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Nizze Nilsson commented
A button for wild animals.. and one for roadworks.. and please move up the speed meter over the right button please.. best regards nizze
and thanks for the best ap ever..
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Jem commented
It would be great to have a button for when there are LIVING animals on or near the road. I know there's a button for roadkill but this would be for live animals. Many times I'm driving and there are deer or rabbits running around on or near the road and it would be great to have a button to press so other Wazers driving in that area will be alerted there are animals on or near the road so they can be alert so they don't hit them.
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Anonymous commented
I`ll would like to suggest to include ANIMALS ON THE ROAD button alert on the alert window in the waze map
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Ken Murphy commented
WAZE should incorporate a moose icon to warn of moose in an area. Really hitting one can be fatal
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S commented
Add animal in/near road for when deer try to cross highway, dog loose on road, road kill, etc.
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Anonymous commented
In my country feral or stray dog are frecuent nuisance. How can we add a warning ⚠? If
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JB commented
This could be all animals...dogs, cats, deer, etc
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JB commented
Also have a feature to auto dial animal control.
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SunJ commented
Those are Alert Type 5 and Alert Type 6
according to waze source code thdy seem disinterested in UI option to ignore
You will need to edit the preference file yourself
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Tubby Bartles commented
The only announcements I want for alerts are those that actually block my driving. Roadkill, car stopped on shoulder, etc., don't really help.
But I can't find a way to suppress those without also suppressing things like "police officer ahead", "traffic ahead", or "object in road" which I do want.
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StevesJeep commented
Deer and bears in our area (and a number of other areas in the U.S. and Canada) are more of a problem than any other hazard. How do we report this?
There'd be a lot more motorcyclists signing up just for this feature!
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Anonymous commented
Animal sightings would be a wonderful feature for rescuers!
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JCH commented
Waze needs an icon to report when deer are on the side of the road ready to jump in front of you and ruin your day.
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Steve Smith commented
I'm guessing you live in a fairly rural area. Living in Baltimore, Md, if I saw a cow on the side of 95 north I'd probably to confused to report it ;-)
But I did grow up in a farm town though and I have to agree it would have been nice back then.
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Leo Silva commented
Report Livestock present along the road