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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ADRIAN commented
Sería bueno la opción que los conductores podamos advertir puntos de paso de animales para evitar atropellarlos y registrar cuando suceden. Así veterinarios cerca o voluntarios pueden atender la fauna o bien advertir para prevenir el atropello.
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Wyll commented
I see animals everyday get hit by cars in the area where i live, i think this could be one of the many solutions to this problem and was thinking of suggesting something like this.
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Anonymous commented
We can identify debris in the road but not injured wildlife in need of emergency help - can you pls. Add this feature and have it send a message to state police / local wildlife rescue / Dept if Environmental Protection? Thanks!!!
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Audrey commented
There used to be options for reporting objects and animals on the road or shoulder under the “Hazard” option. This was very useful to quickly choose. These options are no longer available. It takes too long to report these items using the comment feature.
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N commented
GREAT IMPROVEMENTS adding the roadkill & live animals on shoulder icons! And having the crash one more accessible is terrific!
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Anonymous commented
Palm Coast has lots of Waze users and lots of wildlife. Especially at night we have deer and wild boar. Not tiny ones either. I think having Icons would be a cool and light hearted way to alert other users. Pretty please??
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Caitlin Midkiff commented
I’m really upset by the graphic and the term ‘roadkill’ used by Waze. Those are sentient beings, creatures that have just as much right to this planet as us and when we take those lives it is a tragedy. Waze’s current icon and name are offensive and careless. I used to be all about Waze but that might be the straw that finally pushes me back to Apple maps for good.
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Ixuwaz commented
And deer, and reindeer
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Anonymous commented
De même que signaler la présence d’un policier à un endroit, il serait bon de pouvoir indiquer un animal ( orignaux, chevreuil) dans le chemin où en bordures de route pour en aviser les utilisateurs de faire attention.
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Anonymous commented
Add a report for Deer or animals on or near the roadway.
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Anonymous commented
Hazard - Animals on Road (for Dogs, Deer, Cows, sighting to keep people and animals safe)
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Anonymous commented
Can we please include a animal crossing notificagion along the highways without barriers to at least do our part to minimisd animal death in the highway?
Just reminding drivers that way I'd say is good publicity to what happened recently regarding the tapir matter.
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Emily Anderson commented
Be able to input an animal that it is seen in the road into the waze app the same way police cars are inputted. This would decrease the amount of roadkill in the road because drivers will know to slow down for an animal (turtles will sit in the road for hours).
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Anonymous commented
In Nordic countries there are a lot of moose/reindeer warning signs along the road. This kind of alert could be very useful when you are driving, like speedometers, especially in bad weather conditions. A moose can weigh 700kg and a collision with one of them can be deadly. At the moment some navigators have this function.
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karen commented
WOW good idea
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Isabella Mobilia commented
My idea is adding a Roadkill icon. When killed on the icon three other options would pop up, killed severely injured, and injured, then when you click send you would not only have it notify people using the app but also wildlife rescue places.
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Andrew Mack commented
I am a wildlife biologist. Deer are creatures of habit, but those habits change with time of year and time of day, as well as geography. If people mapped deer sightings on the road, collisions or near-collisions in real time, you could build a model to predict likelihood of deer on the road based on the location/time/time of year. Mapping a deer sighting is not much use. But thousands of entries could build a predictive model for high likelihood hazards based on location and time. Deer crossing signs are OK, but they really only have value at certain times of the day and year. Waze has the capability, if enough people enter data, to make a much more useful feature. With each passing year it could become better and better. It would help drivers know when to be vigilant, which is valuable always, but especially when there is reduced visibility.
Just as one observer on a regular commute in Pennsylvania, I am able to predict in advance the places, time and month I most likely will encounter deer.
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Anonymous commented
Waze how bout you a another feather like spotting deer on the road or shoulder. I think this will help people know what to expect on them foggy nights and prevent accidents caused by deer.
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Timothy Droste commented
Deer Icon appears when reports are received, operator can query ("button" push/tap icon), colored sections of map appear along route; white = no activity reported, yellow = animals seen in vicinity of/on road, red = carcass seen near road, collision witnessed/occurred.
Algorithm should use real time and historical data, e.g. accumulated reports over last 3 weeks. Map would return to normal color scheme 5 secs after query. -
Gianluca commented
Ulteriori segnalazioni sono animali che si muovono lungo la strada e strade ricoperte da fango e terra ( magari lasciati da un trattore )