A button for HOV or non-HOV
There should be a button to tell Waze whether the car is in the HOV lane. 1), it would help Waze better determine traffic speed since it wouldn't average Wazer's in the HOV lanes with the speeds of those driving slower. 2), the Map would/could show the average speed of HOV or non HOV speeds. A Wazer in the HOV lane could really impact the accurate speed average shown (and vice versa).

Great thinking! The issue you raised has been addressed in a recent redesign. Hope you like it!
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Rk m commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
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!
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Anonymous commented
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!
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Anonymous commented
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!
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jenny commented
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.
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Anonymous commented
Allowing to opt out of HOV COMPLIANT lane would sure save this customer a few citations
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DW commented
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.
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Alan Krupa commented
This option is exactly what we need. I drive a CNG truck in CA. This allows me single in the HOV lane at all times. I also am using the Waze Carpool app, I think it should direct me to HOV when I pick up my rider each day.
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Anonymous commented
Please add a field to identify whether or not the car can take the carpool HOV lane's. It is useless to be routed via HOV when you aren't a carpool
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Jim Howard commented
Please add a feature to identify whether you're a single occupancy, or have 1, 2, or 3+ passengers.
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Anonymous commented
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Vikki commented
YES. This needs to be implemented. I can't believe it hasn't been already.
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Anonymous commented
Vote yes
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Anonymous commented
I agree about the carpool lane being taken into consideration
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Anonymous commented
Add option to avoid hov lane because there's hi way entrance hov only in dc area. I got a ticket to enter this hov only entrance to hi-way 66. If Waze has a function to avoid hov , would be perfect
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Anonymous commented
Sheesh...it is super irritating to get sent to a jammed highway and then told to get in HOV lane when I'm single occupancy. Fail!
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Daniel Jones commented
Please implement this!
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Drivey McDriveington commented
Waze default HOV routing is a huge drawback n L.A. and recently c
ost me a carpool violation ticket. Granted, I should have known better because I'm a local but I was distracted and followed the app's directions to enter the 110 FWY South via a carpool only ramp. PLEASE GIVE US A NO HOV OPTION! I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO STOP USING WAZE! -
Anonymous commented
As many have mentioned, Waze desperately needs a switch in settings to indicate whether your vehicle is HOV compliant so it can determine whether a certain route is faster if it knows you can use HOV lanes. I would take it one step further and suggest a checkbox on the main map to let Waze know whether you are currently in an HOV lane so when it calculates the speeds of the traffic flow, it understands which cars are in the HOV lane (normally too close to other lanes for GPS to figure out the difference and truly understand which lane you are in).
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LIE Ed commented
How do they not have an HOV component yet? It is so frustrating! I never know if I should trust the re-routing advice. Sometimes I do and as I drive away I see the HOV lane zooming past the log jam. Ugh!