speed / progress estimation
In areas where there is no GPS available, expecially in tunnels, what about a speed / progress estimation? This could be based on:
1) let's say.. 80%-90% of speed before entering a tunnel
2) if other wazers drove through that tunnel shortly before, you should know when they entered and left the tunel and so approximate the speed in the tunnel.
This would have several advantages:
1) no "jumping" on map, no "jumping" in ETA (as now you stand at the beginning of the tunnel and then jump to the end)
2) when there is something to report in the tunnel (accidents, radar traps), now everything is at the entrance of the tunnel (as waze thinks I'm standing there until I leave the tunnel), though it might be close before the end of it..
Guido Seibert
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Great news! Simulating the navigation while driving in a tunnel is now available in Waze. Install the latest app version to check it out.
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Andreas Knabe commented
When I'm traveling thru a looong tunnel, often I lose the GPS reception. The waze application, with less/no GPS connection can believe I'm "somewhere else", in "surface" (often very small roads).
The pre-determination tools should expect when I enter 100 km/h in a tunnel, there is 99.99 % chance I would travel thru the tunnel until the other end. It should not "recalculate" the position based on bad/wrong GPS signal ... -
Giovanni Puppo
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Agree for the need of this feature. I think best to keep the speed at the entrance of the tunnel
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Patrik Trestik
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I'll add points to suggestion:
3) GPS fix at end of tunnel is not accurate. It often puts my car to some other road around and needlessly recalculates route. It is few seconds, but if there is crossing at end of tunnel, it is problem.4) Exits which are underground. At current state app gives no instructions (only those before tunnel). If speed is simulated it can give good approximation where exit is.
Inspire in other navigation software (I used Sygic before Waze). They do simulate by road limits, but Waze is much better as it knows actual speed of other wazers.