I need suport on this as I've tried to get Waze to make this adjustment but they keep saying enough people have to agree
It seems crazy to me that you can so easily post a vehicle stopped on the side of the road...not effecting traffic at all...yet there is no option to report a vehicle broken down in the middle of Freeway lanes, causing a monumental traffic jam! There is an option for roadkill!!! Like a squashed squirrel is really going to impact your journey...but nothing for a vehicle. I had this problem happen to me. There was an almighty backup and I had no idea why. There was a vague report about "an Object" in the road, but you think of a bucket, perhaps a tire....you don't immediately think of a whole broken down truck! Could you all support me in getting this simple piece of code added, so it makes sense? Thanks. Also, it takes way too ong for reports to show up on the maps! I was in dead stopped traffic last week and was madly reporting the mess, as I was constantly looking at a clear yellow map and supposedly no traffic. After I had posted so many reports, trying to get the map change to red and congestion, I was stopped being able to report anymore. It was a good 40 minutes that i was in traffic, before the map changed orange and showed some slowing!!!! if I had been a wazer following, and hadn't got the immediate update of traffic snarl, I would have been pissed! I think they either have to trust wazers or single out those with constantly reliable repots. Either way, Waze is meant to be better than the others for exactly that reason...the immediacy of the reports. Not happening!
Great news! The feature of reporting a stopped vehicle is now available under Hazard on road in Waze. Install the latest app version to check it out.
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FzNk commented
Report -> Hazard -> On Road -> Vehicle stopped