Red light timer
I propose a button that can be toggled to pop up when on surface streets, it is a simple light that you tap once to turn red, and again to turn back to green. The idea is you would press it when you see the light change, which is not necessarily when you stop or go. What this would do is help Waze better understand how long in various traffic scenarios a red light will take to get through. In some traffic, you may switch the light from green to red and back multiple times. This will also give an aggregate time a certain light is programmed to change (If it is noticed to be constant, rather than triggered by a camera), and can then help give reasonable probability of how much time the traffic light will add to your trip total. In NYC, for instance, some detours put you on surface streets with tons of lights; some are on timers that allow tor a steady traffic flow. Others are not.
Waze reacts to this by asking you if you are in traffic; there might be heavy volume, but the traffic lights are really the reason for the traffic going nowhere. I.e, the traffic is the fault of the traffic lights, not that volume was too heavy to begin with.
A simple button that looks like a traffic light; it defaults as green, and you click it if you feel safe to do so to change it to red. Then back again when it changes. It could even show a timer on the screen so you know how long it has gone. Who knows, you may even be rewarded with points for setting the. ‘Record” ! I think this is a nice companion to the traffic congestion pop up monitor.
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