Simple Voice Commands To Respond to Alerts or Hazards
Hi. Love Waze, but this idea is one of three that would take it from good to great for me...
Problem: It is a dangerous practice to interact with screens and mobile devices while driving a vehicle. In response to safety concerns, laws are increasingly being put in place prohibiting interacting with screens (touching devices) while driving. Some simple voice commands would enable meaningful interaction with Waze in this situation.
Possible Solutions:
1) Only while an alert is displayed, enable very simple voice commands to improve the quality of alert (hazard warnings), for example 'Still there' or 'Gone'.
2) If/when (1) was successfully implemented, move to enabling the identification of new hazards/alerts as a second phase, for example, 'New hazard' then 'pot hole'. This could include a 'Please confirm the identification of a new hazard Yes or No', to which the drive could just respond with 'Yes', 'confirm' or 'no'.