It should be added as this is valuable feature

Offer a commuter option check box, to tell Waze that you have multiple passengers in the car, and will be using the commute lanes available on your commute. Waze would use current traffic data to recalculate your commute based on commute lane availability.

Yaaaass

Show the route times based off of current Wazers using HOV/Carpool lane(s).

List the option as an additional route to possibly entice people to consider carpooling more often.

Prior to every drive, ask if driver has access to HOV/Carpool lanes or if driver plans to use pay HOV lanes. Question only shows up if drive may include HOV/Carpool lanes during active hours. Calculate routes based on answer. Use answer for HOV question to collect speed data for HOV lanes vs normal lanes.

I can't use HOV ($5) but frequently get routed there as a "rerouted and saved you 5 minutes", making use of Waze a problem, since you don't know where it is taking you. But sometimes I take the toll road. How to turn off HOV??

If you cannot determine what conditions need to be satisfied to use either HOV or HOT lanes, they can vary by location or date or event then allow the user to make that decision. Just allow the driver to choose HOV as the option. Sometimes this changes during the trip when doing a carpool and folks get in or out.

As there are over 30K Wazers in the DC area online during a typical commute, having an HOV calculation would be wonderful. I use the HOV every day but it's difficult to determine whether the HOV is moving based on the time given. Also, when the HOV IS actually open and moving, those HOV Wazers will not skew the data while driving considerable faster than the non HOV Wazers.

Agreed. I'm in L.A. and have carpool access stickers (EV). It would be awesome to have an option to turn on HOV as I use it 100% of the time.

i agree, and i would also like to see which freeway onramps have carpool lanes.

In Los Angeles there is a difference between HOV and toll roads... I can sometimes use a carpool lane, but can never use a toll road as I don't have a monthly pass

Add HOV option, add truck route option

That would be awesome

When HOV LANE AVAILABLE AND TRAFFIC THEREIN.

Just searched to figure out how to tell Waze to not use HOV lanes, can't believe there isn't a toggle option for this yet since requests have been going on for it since at least 2011.

Houstonians are having a similar issue, HOV Lanes are not included or unable to read that you are on the HOV lane or not. So while riding the HOV it tries to make you exit when there isn't a way to do so.

Can we crowdsource which express lanes require 3 or more passengers in the car?

I often find myself second guessing Waze on routing because of the differential in travel time between HOV and non-HOV lanes. Once I commit to not following the suggested route I note the expected arrival time to see how much of a difference my choice made. Then I compare my actual arrival with the first estimated arrival time. Typically, I match if not beat the first estimate by taking advantage of the HOV lanes.

Add a button to allow us to avoid HOV lanes

Also ask how many people are in the car if we are going to take a HOV route.

Capture the conditions for HOV tolls if there are not 2 or more people and allow the driver to decide on that.
-In Houston it can be $6.50 to ride the HOV, I would usually just take another route around the city but if I don't find out until Im about the enter the HOV the regular highway will take an extra 30 minutes.

In Houston you can take the HOV if you want to pay a toll but only at certain times. I love that waze helps you sort out the HOV lanes because they are a pain to navigate sometimes. I cannot afford using the HOV every day though. Yesterday waze kept sending me to various entrances on my way home and I just couldn't use it any more.

It would be nice to have the HOV no HOV option or maybe just ask the question how many people are in the car or are you riding a motorcycle? As another option it might be nice to offer the HOV if there is a serious contrast.

For example, another day this week the highway was totally blocked so I followed the HOV suggestion and that saved me 40 minutes on my commute. Don't just offer a route that costs me $7 because it will save 5 minutes though, like it did yesterday. Give some explanation like, this route is going to save you 30 minutes but may involve a toll is that cool? This could be an option in the software, a threshold at which you would take a toll road.