I don’t want to use a screen interface to do my critical input reporting (roadside hazards, police). Nor do I want to use voice, which is messy and impractical when traveling with several people in the car. The ideal solution (IMO) would keep people from shifting their eyes to a screen or using their voice in scenarios where they have multiple people (ie kids!) in the car.

Instead, I would love to see either Waze offer a programmable hardware button set that we can map the most important actions to the buttons for easy tactile reporting. If Waze doesn’t want to make and sell this, can we support the independent developer community to create them? These wireless smart buttons are already on the market. Like flic.io. But a Waze solution doesn’t seem to be available.

If there’s another post making this point and request, feel free to share the link and I’ll upvote it and comment, and remove this one. TIA.