I agree, a simple toggle on the HOV lane would be helpful. Maybe an easy way to turn it off/on depending number of passengers.

Waze gets totally confused if one is driving a carpool lane during heaving traffic. I'm doing 60mph while regular lanes are 20mph. Waze wants me to exit. I ignore it so it's constantly re-rerouting. I'm in a carpool flyover and again Waze gets totally confused thinking I'm on some other road and re-routes every 30 seconds because it has no idea where I'm really located. I ignore it. I would also think that this will result bad data to your servers who may think the regular lanes are clearing.

Create separate toggle buttons to allow users to turn on/off options for (1) HOV Lanes and (2) Toll Roads. Currently, Waze bundles the two options together. However HOV lanes are not an options for single drivers during peak times even at a toll price. Being able to turn off HOV lane feature and leave on Toll Roads would be fantastic.

WAZE keeps trying to force me into the HOV lanes, when I in fact have only one person in the car. On my route to work, every single route option provided is HOV. I do not qualify for HOV and I do not want any HOV routes. I desperately need to turn this off! Worse yet, even when I self select the non-HOV route, WAZE keeps giving the directions (e.g "Exit right") as if I were on the HOV lane. The directions are WRONG for the place in the road where I actually am but WAZE keeps giving me this bum steer. This is the most important issue for my commute and it is not a minor matter. It is also absolutely implausible that an app that prides itself on flagging even trivial things like a stalled car or a pothole on the route, cannot find a way to deal with this incredibly important practical issue. Reading the comments it is clear this has been an issue for a long time. Why is it not fixed?

Agree, though for a different reason. The current system lumps HOV and toll preferences, so it puts you in HOV lanes if you have toll tags selected, even if the lanes don't allow non-compliant vehicles for a toll.

Having better geographic information about carpool lanes would be a big help. Entrances and exits, dedicated on ramps, local or express, for example CA91 is express through Corona; if you don't know that you stay in the carpool lane only to find that you have to go 2-3 miles out of the way.

I want to be able to choose between carpool lanes and regular fwy. lanes before I start my trip.

Tell the Waze programmers that there is a thing called HOT and HOV. Email me if you need me to explain it.

Agree! And add a feature to tell Waze that you have left the HOV. I am an HOV stickered vehicle in SOCAL, but due to heavy cheating, HOV often moves slower than the rest. Since I am assumed to be where Waze tells me (and it is often slower than non-HOV), but I leave the HOV and travel in the other lanes, Waze actually thinks the HOV is moving faster than it is.

Definitely need this!

I sometimes have someone else in the car with me so being able to advise how many people are in the car to then be able to make use of carpool/T2/transit lanes would make quite a difference on certain routes.

Stop telling me to get in and out of the HOV lanes. You don't know if I'm using them, and it adds a ton of directions in and out of the HOV. You are frequently wrong as to which lane is moving more quickly, and it is annoying. Maybe one day, you will figure out how to track our movement in lanes better, and then it will help, but that day is not yet here.

Between people requirements of up to 3+ and high prime time HOV was pricing, some times for little time difference, I agree with this idea. I can no longer get accurate travel times because part of my route will always be a toll but to “remove” the HOV option I have to turn off tolls.

HOV Lane Choice

Let the users choose whether they are in the HOV Lane or not, if the GPS could possibly be a bit off. Would be good if a driver stays in the HOV Lane on accident, or doesn't get in on time

Yes! Please add option to “avoid HOV.” I have a daily stretch where I’m on a freeway for an hour and waze tells me to get in and out of an HOV Lane 10 times! It’s become so irritating, I no longer use Waze.

Plenty of ways to customize Waze for HOV... as a Maryland resident, I can ride my plug-in hybrid in Maryland HOV lanes but not in Virginia HOV lanes. Similarly a Virginia resident could ride in Virginia HOV abut not Maryland HOV.

I can use Waze on my phone on my motorcycle and be okay in both Maryland and Virginia HOV lanes.

I would very much like to be able to manage how Waze provides direction based on my HOV preference. At the moment I have to guess how quickly the HOV traffic is moving on my ride home and simply ignore whatever Waze is telling me about my route. It defeats the purpose of having real time traffic.

They just added HOV capability but it seems to only be for people with HOV Tags for clean cars. But HOV is also for cars with 2 or 3 passengers. They need to add an option to enter number of passengers so the new HOV functionality can be complete!

They just added HOV capability but it seems to only be for people with HOV Tags for clean cars. But HOV is also for cars with 2 or 3 passengers. They need to add an option to enter number of passengers so the new HOV functionality can be complete!

They just added HOV capability but it seems to only be for people with HOV Tags for clean cars. But HOV is also for cars with 2 or 3 passengers. They need to add an option to enter number of passengers so the new HOV functionality can be complete!

It would be nice to have the ability add or subtract a passenger in your car so that the app would only give you the choice of a commuter lane if you are able to use it. Like when you can opt out of taking a highway or not. It is hard to find a good route home when the only options i get are for the commuter lane and i am the only one in the car.

Allowing to opt out of HOV COMPLIANT lane would sure save this customer a few citations

Even from a non-selfish standpoint, when I'm using Waze in the carpool lane and going faster than the rest of the traffic, I don't want Waze to get bad data thinking the regular lanes are going faster than they are.