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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JoonasA
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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 !
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Anything of this kind, is greater than nothing. I’m grateful as it is, to have Waze.
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Anonymous
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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
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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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Anonymous commented
Set Speed Camera alert always on regardless of current speed. This is needed on UK Smart Motorways where limits are set below the national speed limit.
Set mobile Police Speed Camera van alert distance to 1 or 2 miles.
Set speed camera or police visual Alert colour on Android Auto. The current flashing blob is not visible enough. Let us make it bright red to see it more clearly on the cars nav screen.
The main reason I use Waze is for the Speed Camera alerts but the lack of these options is making it very frustrating to use. Please add these options if possible.
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Anonymous
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to see if the vehicle on the side of the road or the patrol officer is there. Remember if we are driving and looking out for ourselves, and a notification voice says, Vehicle on side of the road in 1.2 miles. We begin to look for that. Dividing now our attention between driving and looking ahead to see if there is still a car on the side or patrol person. I feel myself often rushed and straining to see up the road. If there is a curve, or a semi in front of me I can't do anything until its too late. The warning is gone and I can't help. I would only hope you could add a couple more seconds on showing that STILL THERE / NOT THERE message. ty
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Shadyn Ebey
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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
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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
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And add the toll barrier distance. Police are sooooo often within the 10km of the toll barrier
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Andy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This would help a lot
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Anonymous
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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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Linda
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Would like a way to determine the distance I am from a road hazard, police, construction or traffic delay. If there is a way to click on the appropriate icon to see exactly where the problem is I haven't been able to find how. I'm usually a very short distance before being warned which doesn't help much if there's a traffic delay & I might have been able to exit the highway beforehand. BUT I love waze.
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David
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Would be awesome to be able to set the police reported ahead distance 👍
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Mike L
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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.
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Naila Flower
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Twice yesterday the map did not display no cops was anywhere and all the sudden I had the cops behind me two different times and different locations and it did not show up on the map or alert me
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Gideon Beemster
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In this case I think its more accurate to help other wazers with not only to report a speedcheck but also to be able to set a distance to it because in some cases we are moving further away from it. So report, set distance easy with 3 options, say minus 50-100-200m (city, local, highway)