Come on Waze, please fix this!

The problem is not only with Waze team which arrogantly ignore their users requests for two years already, but also the idiots who take off their hands from the wheel to report this "hazard" whenever they spot a car parked somewhere, even if you will hit trees and fences before you hit the car, and by reporting this they become a hazard themselves, and casing distraction to everyone else.

********* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE allow me to disable the dreaded 'Vehicle stopped on shoulder ahead" message. Drive thru any large city and you will hear this constantly. It makes WAZE completely useless in metropolitan areas.

vehicle parked on driveway somewhere ahead

why not add even lower value info?

I AGREE !! Not helpful at all. Why in the world can't I just turn off the notification for cars on the side of the road? I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT A CAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT A CAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT A CAR ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. Waze, please allow me to turn off this "feature".

throttle feckless reporters of this non-hazard BY weighted not-there frequencies

Amen brother. Unless the car is blocking the road .... It's a nuisance.

"Vehicle stopped on shoulder" is a feature only added for gamification. It's not helpful (at least where we drive on California I-80) and is an unneeded distraction. It's dangerous.

I agree. I used Waze to drive from nyc to Florida and it was great. I listened to an audio book the whole way, but missed a lot every time I was warned that there was a "vehicle stopped on shoulders ahead". I never realized how many vehicles stop on the shoulder! Maybe they were stopping to rewind their audio book.

Yes, please let me filter this useless notification. I'd be willing to PAY.

What makes it such an idiotic and warning is the idiots who who report every car which stopped on shoulder, risking their and others life by using their samrtphone to report it. However this is the easiest way to impress new Waze users so Waze will probably never remove this warning.

I've found the only way to get some peace from these stupid warnings is to turn off the sound altogether. But then I have to put my phone over my speedometer so I can see what it's telling me.

If annoyed enough, the solution is to use this music interrupting, peaceful drive interrupting, waste of "not there" click "feature" all the time until enough people complain or stop using the app altogether. Keep clicking vehicle stopped on shoulder over and over and over and watch your users disappear.

Why not provide us with an off button Waze?

Amen, the most common warning around here (DC freeways), and pretty much useless here. I wouldn't want it completely deleted from Waze, but I would like the ability to turn off this particular warning in my particular circumstances.

Out in the rural southwest US, we regularly get abandoned cars on the freeway shoulder. This can be dangerous around turns, especially as there is very little clearance, and anyone attempting to enter or leave a vehicle is within inches of stepping into the traffic lane. I used to drive a tow truck, and the abandoned vehicle calls on the freeway always made me nervous, as that's the most likely spot to get you killed on the job.

Remove these from Waze altogether. It's distracting and a false alarm. I only want to see real hazards - like something large in the middle of a lane.

the first commenter's ignore idea is the way

hold not there:

ignore these types of alerts

[ now | always ]

i would prefer a thumbs down out toungeout emoticon

WATCH OUT

yeah? and?

this CAUSES MORE rubber necking!

There are 170 deaths and serious injuries each year in the UK caused to people 'parked' on the shoulder. (Source: theaa.com ) That is people stopped inappropriately or broken down who are then hit by another vehicle that strays onto the shoulder inappropriately. Thats the injuries. In the UK if you call the emergency services and say you are stopped on the hard shoulder they will tell you to get out of the car, get everyone else out of the car and stand behind the safety rail. So the actual likelihood of an accident must be greater than 170 per year as there will be more empty vehicles than occupied.

That seems wildly different from the US where there does seem to be a LOT of cars on the shoulder (whats that about?) and no-one out their cars.

That is a very significant hazard in my opinion. In fact from my experience of waze in the UK its under reported and when it does appear on screen the pop-up is too close to the hazard by then I've seen it...

Yes, please! In a long drive it's terribly distracting since the driver becomes saturated with "WATCH OUT!" alerts when there's really no hazard most of the time a car is in the shoulder.