have a "slow vehicle" type with a CUSTOM TOP SPEED
I drive antique vehicles which are often slow but i don't mind driving on highways so dont want to check "avoid freeways", i would just like that the navigtion algorythm takes my top speed (50mph for one car 65 for the other one) into account when calculating the route.
this could be set in the "type of vehicles" menu, select "special" and have a customizable "top speed".
then, even on a 80mph road, waze would only consider i'll make 50 and maybe reroute me on a shorter path !
If you want to go further you could even set a "garage" in wich we set each of our our vehicles (cars, motorbikes, ...), their fuel and their top speed. it would popup at the app launch, and at travel planing, and allow us to keep all settings in memory.
sorry for english mistakes...i'm french....
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Daniel Gonzalez Alonso commented
Many of us drive different cars with different top speeds during the week. For example, there may be cases where someone drives a van/truck for work with reduced top speed (e.g. in Spain, for these vehicles max speed is 100Km/h in highways, whereas regular cars can do 120Km/h), while they may drive their own regular car the rest of the time. Or someone can drive a regular car during the week and tow their caravan during the weekend. This makes the smart calculations for ETA from Waze fail, since it's getting very different inputs from both types of vehicles.
A workaround today is to have separate accounts, and log-off/log-on when you switch vehicles. But there could be an easier way to manage it, using the already existing vehicle types. What if there could be a "custom" vehicle type, besides the already existing Car, Motorbike and Taxi, which would allow for Waze to "separate" calculations when using different vehicles? We would not even need to enter a different max speed because Waze would learn from our usual speeds, and we could switch quickly between vehicle types without having to use separate accounts.
I do think this would be a very nice feature by simply adding one more profile to the already existing functionality. Please consider it!
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Sebastian van Veen commented
There should be an option to add custom vehicle types along with the three existing. I am often switching between the company van, my diesel 4x4 and electric daily runabout, and my navigation requirements and wishes for these are different as they all have different use cases. Would be nice to add more profiles so I can easily swap between EV specific and diesel for instance, and also have one where I can leave the option for gravel roads on, or even set gravel roads as preferred if possible, this also kinda applies to ADV motorcycles.