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.
Sowgandhika Nimma
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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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Jacob Rosenbaum commented
Add deer on road or near by icon
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Robert Holloway
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Please bring back the option of reporting animals nearby. This was a valuable tool on the app.
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Marcelo
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Hoy tuve que esquivar una vaca en la ruta y no pude notificar a los demás.
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Ay
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Bring back the wildlife on side of road alert. It’s important to know where deer are at dusk and dawn when near highways.
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Tasha villalobos commented
I belive the button for animals on side of road should come back it was really helpful when going through new areas an also on highways where there are deer
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Frankiefigs commented
This was a very important safety feature. WHY would Waze take it off the app?!?!?1
Currently looking for a new app or AI with an animal feature now -
Anyone know of another app WITH animal alerts?
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They should at LEAST bring back the animal alert
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WHY was the animal alert removed?! That really sucks! Everyone in my community relies on this alert as we have an abundance of deer and bear! At least give an option to select alerts for individuals. But I see this falling on tin ears. Can anyone recommend another app that has some type of Animal alert?
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Rachael Stickle commented
There used to be a button for nearby animals. This was very helpful living in an area with many deer, turkey, foxes running across roads. Now the only thing is a general “hazard” button which could mean anything, or map chat which isn’t safe to use while driving
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aquilla
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I AGREE! Please bring it back it helped several times already
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aquilla
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Please add back the possiblity to report animals. It helps a lot!
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aquilla
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Allow report animals or make it customizable so people can choose what reports they want to have at hand .. if no animals live nearby someone he can hide it.
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aquilla
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YES! Return the option to report animals and roadkills please! Especially animals near road!
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aquilla
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add back ability to report animals near road please! That is one very important feature
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aquilla
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I did as well... please bring it back. Animals are one of the main reasons I use waze, it helped many times.
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aquilla
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bring back roadkill and animals report please
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Markus V commented
Specifically reporting animals is critical for driver and wildlife safety!
Putting everything under the general term "Hazard" is ridiculous. How does a driver know whether its an 18-wheeler parked on the shoulder (relatively safe - no need to slow down) vs a herd of wild deer leaping across the road (dangerous!)
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Sarah
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please return the option to report animals; reporting deer saves human lives and trauma
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Douglas commented
You took away the ability to mark animals under the hazard icon on your map. I would always mark dear when I come to work early in the morning when it’s still dark out, I would mark them so people would not hit them with the car and maybe get injured themselves or kill the deer please return this that you had on a hazard icon. Otherwise I’m leaving Waze because I don’t agree with this policy.