Find a way to avoid spurious hazard reporting of cars stopped on the shoulder when parked safely and posing no risk to drivers
It seems I'm many times a week on freeway journeys seeing situations where a hazard alert will come up for a car stopped when the car in question is safely parked (usually with no occupant outside or in proximity) 4-5m away from the road itself presenting zero actual hazard to road users whatsoever. It often gives a 'for the sake it' type of feel (as if reported someone's kid is in the passenger seat bored). It is pretty annoying and often jolting when it happens say more than 5 times in a 1 hr journey whilst you're driving along concerned about actual police and traffic incidents. I've got no great ideas on how it can be better handled but perhaps the Waze team can take a look. Thanks
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ChairmanNow commented
With a weeks driving with Waze last month in regional Scotland (Aberdeen, north to as far as Inverness), with basically no reports, I observed that people actually know how to use this reporting function in a useful and non-spurious manner when required. On two occasions while driving from Scotland through to Northern England I was alerted to two very dangerous situations. One was some absolute idiot with a caravan parked with it partly intruding on the left lane of a dual carriageway. The other was a similarly inept individual pulling their car over and still having it hanging out into the left lane, seemingly to a rest break. Both of these incidents were extremely dangerous. I didn't come across any other reportings in the rest of my travel, across most of two days, between the North and London with much of the time on the M8 motorway etc.
However, in my first half an hour of driving back in Australia I had already noted 3 spurious car on shoulder reports. Needless to say this is the same old daily irritation with a ratio of approx 2 out 10 useful amongst the needless car on shoulder reports.. -
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