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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Dave Stokes commented
this needs to be a minimum of 1 mile, but 2 miles would be better
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Lou Javois commented
In NYC, there are so many speed cameras everywhere. When Waze gives the first warning that a camera is ahead, the driver has so much to focus on, that u can forget once you’re really near the camera. Can you please give us a configurable option for a secondary alert for when the camera is 100 feet away, 50 feet away, etc., if the camera is flashing/relevant for the direction one is driving?
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Antony commented
Definitely need police notifications earlier. Almost pointless for mobile camera vans in Uk as their range is much more than the current warning time/distance.
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Sebastián Rivas commented
There should be an option for custom selection.
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Lesa Klepzig Morgan commented
It would be ideal if users could specify how far in advance they want the notification. If it must be a fixed distance (not user changeable) 1 mile notification would be better than the current approximate .4 notification.
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Brat Vlad commented
You did a great job. For distance to speed camera 500 m is not enough especially in highway. It’s better to be at least 1km. Now when I hear a warning I have no time to react - the camera is just in front of me!
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Hubert Kępski commented
Using Waze on Android Auto, the speed camera notification only appears 10 metres ahead. This is too late. I suggest showing this notification at least 100 metres before it.
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Peter commented
Don't speed, simple.
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Dwayne commented
more like a mile ahead would be great
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Filip Dražančić commented
I can't believe this hasn't been addressed yet. This needs to be fixed asap. You are having drivers panic-braking because the alert is coming in the last moment or too late. Are you really this oblivious to a problem that is so easily fixable????
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James E commented
The object of waze isn’t to go out & break the law. If you’re driving 10+ over depending on the State you can get a reckless driving ticket , arrested, & or have your vehicle towed. As long as you’re not breaking the law by speeding then it shouldn’t matter when you’re warned. Unless you’re the type of person that prefers to put ppl & their families in danger. Just takes one mistake to lose control while speeding which can lead to manslaughter or permanent injuries. The only reason why i like the warning is that it means there may end up being slowdowns from ppl getting themselves back to being closer to the speed limit.
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Rob C commented
v.4.88 and earlier would display in tenths of a mile how far to the hazard (Police, Object On Road, Etc.). The latest version no longer shows this. Also, you could touch another icon (say a yellow triangle) on the map and it would a) say what it was and b) how far away it was from your current position. This is not possible now with the later versions. Some blogs were stating this was requested by law enforcement but I tend to doubt that. Not sure if this was intentional or an oversight but it's keeping me (and some others) using older versions (giving up the Coolwalk split screen for a version that works). Lastly, not related, the later versions have a GPS bug for it's current position yielding constant zooming in and out.
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Greg Powell commented
Please add an option to select how far from a hazard that a notification is triggered.
The default is too short for some alerts eg "Police Reported Ahead" -
Ralph commented
Self explanatory.
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Luc St-Pierre commented
Be able to change radius of when you are alerted of cops. Instead of alerting 500-600m before, be able to change it to 1km, 2km, etc
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filip cadenovic commented
It would be nice to have two time alert for camera. First 1km before, second 300m.
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Lee Jones commented
One Mile warning is the biggest improvement you could make to an already cool app!
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Yurii Mykhailiuta commented
Anything of this kind, is greater than nothing. I’m grateful as it is, to have Waze.
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Jason commented
Definitely, the ability to customize the distance the alerts are given to suit the driver's personal requirements. It also may be different for different types of alerts. For me, for example, I would prefer that a "Red light camera ahead" warning was provided much closer to the intersection than it is currently, as I find with the current warning distance, I can have 2 or maybe 3 sets of lights between me and the "red light camera" set of lights, and I have forgotten there is a camera there by the time I reach the affected intersection.
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Sergey commented
it's necessary for the user to configure the warning distance for different types of reports