Increase police warning distance
Waze users are warned of speed traps or police presence only about 600 feet ahead of time. This is far too late of a warning. With a clear line of sight, law enforcement can detect speeders at 1-2 miles out.
By the time the Waze warning pops up, you could have already been detected.
This feature – while very well intentioned and thought out – is useless with so little warning.

What we are aiming to do here is speed based alerters.
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Eric Shuman commented
RR crossing alerts are to early
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Mary Sadler commented
When traveling the HOV lane on a freeway with 3 or more lanes to the right, being notified 1 mile before exiting can be difficult to navigate safely, especially with traffic or changing freeways.
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John Govern commented
All of the alerts should be adjustable, not just on/off.
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Fabrizio Luongo commented
Commenting on this feature what would be useful is to set more than one waring for the same camera each alert set for a different distance. It's a good idea to be warned far ahead for far reach cameras but it could happen that if warned far ahead when I reach the camera I already forgot about the warning so it does not serve it's purpose. Two or more configurable distances would be what's best.
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Fabrizio Luongo commented
A speed dependant alert could be useful, but should still be configurable. I am not so sure if it could be worse not to alert at a speed below the limit. I could speed up just there and the warning pop up just at the moment I'm above the limit and being fined already.
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JoonasA commented
It would be nice to see the distance to the next speed camera on the route, and also the speed limit at the next camera. It would save both fuel and brakes, if you could slow down without braking.
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Legend ! commented
Anything of this kind, is greater than nothing. I’m grateful as it is, to have Waze.
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Anonymous commented
Increase the warning distance for alerts especially law enforcement. 1/2 mile is far too short especially in hilly areas. It’s almost as if you’re on top of the law enforcement by the time the alert activates.
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Filip Baverstock commented
I used to get warnings from 0.5miles away for Cameras and Police back in the days when Cameras were a user Pin. It's been ever so annoying recently as this has changed and I agree there isn't enough warning. And it should NOT warn you only when you are speeding. Wish there was a way to revert to old Waze versions.
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Shadyn Ebey commented
Alerts pop up for me as soon as they're reported, and I get an audio warning at least a half mile out.
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Jenn's Art Corner commented
You're not supposed to speed! They should remove the Police Ahead warning period. Let the police do their job.
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Henri commented
And add the toll barrier distance. Police are sooooo often within the 10km of the toll barrier
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Andy commented
If you can't see the speed trap you're probably going too fast. You should drive to your own limits not the vehicles limits.
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Yardbird commented
As others said: Allow it to be user defined, and give the user the ability to set a variable tracking feature related to the speed at which s/he is travelling.
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Anonymous commented
Agreed I have also suggested something similar being about to set your own and also incremental ones so it warns you say 1 mile ahead, 1/2 mile, 1/4 mile etc
https://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59223-waze-suggestion-box/suggestions/42566647-custom-alert-distance -
Anonymous commented
could there be an option for custom distances for the warning of police, speed cameras and hazards etc and have the option for multiple incremental warnings
For example if your are on a road and that road has police reported 1 mile ahead have the audible warning at 1 mile, again at half a mile and at 1/4 mile
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Anonymous commented
This would help a lot
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Anonymous commented
I suggest a feature. Choose the distance that the WAZE would alert the user, as today it is fixed at 500 meters before the "object". You could also have an alert, like a beep, before the voice, to get more attention.
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David commented
Would be awesome to be able to set the police reported ahead distance 👍
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Mike L commented
Please increase the distance to at least a mile - also the icon needs to be more visible, the blue police icon is on a blue road - please deconflict the colours.