Police on the move and what side
Police on the move: I would put an option on the police spotter that shows moving/same side or moving/other side of the road. The app can see what direction/side the motorist is on, it would be a simple change to show that the police are moving on your side or other.
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Steven commented
This is needed both to more accurately identify where they are and to avoid false positives. People report police when they see them driving, which leads to false positives, but if there was a way to tell Waze there is a police car driving in the same or opposite direction, it could continually update it based on estimation of their location based on the speed limit and on new reports, until a certain amount of time elapses with no new reports.
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Steven commented
This is needed both to more accurately identify where they are and to avoid false positives. People report police when they see them driving, which leads to false positives, but if there was a way to tell Waze there is a police car driving in the same or opposite direction, it could continually update it based on estimation of their location based on the speed limit and on new reports, until a certain amount of time elapses with no new reports.
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Shir commented
There should be an option to report police driving along the route, not just stopped and visible/hidden. Sometimes you're on a highway and there is a police driving along the route and this could warn drivers ahead if they see the police coming toward them.
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Michael commented
have a button for police that are moving, driving ahead of the driver. when police drives by me, click the button to alert up ahead. have the police icon move on the road for maybe 1 - 5 miles...
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Whitney commented
Allow Wazers the option to select if the police vehicle is "stationary" or "cruising."
Stationary: Means that the police vehicle is on side of the road or highway observing cars as they pass.
Cruising: Means that the police vehicle is on the road and driving with traffic.
For example if I seee a "Police - Cruising" notification on the navigation, I can expect that the officer is likely no longer in that exact location, but instead further along ahead of me because they are driving with traffic.
But if I see a "Police - Stationary" notification I can expect that the police vehicle is in fact still in that location.
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Anonymous commented
Add the feature that the police is driving in this direction and not just parked beside the road sometimes the police are a little bit ahead or a little bit behind driving or sometimes you passed them driving in the opposite direction the police report as is appears that they just parked beside the road
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Anonymous commented
Great Idea
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Anonymous commented
It would be nice to know it the PD is moving or stationary !
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Cristi commented
In 4.5.0.1, in english, when you wanna report police you can do it :visible, hidden or other side, but in romanian you can report: Filtru (filter), Radar fix/mobil (fix/mobile Radar) or other side. The problems are: The fix radar is ilegal, and a police filter is hard to see in our streets. Insteed we have a lot of policemen in the intersections making good job and directing the traffic. SO, would be better that we could report: 1.radar or filter, 2.guided intersection(or something like this) and 3.other side ( or something else). Thank you.
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Eva commented
Create an alert for "Police" that are actively "Driving"
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Anonymous commented
Need to create the ability to report police on driving road. Not just police and have it stick to a stationary spot. Create an algorithm that takes into account users current speed and have a police icon travel on map. Have it disappear if 5minutes goes by and no other Wazer verifies.
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Anonymous commented
the alerts give too little time for drivers to check their speed when laser style speed cameras in us. ie you may have been zapped before the alert. increase the alert distance to 2 minutes
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StuK commented
I agree I would like it to say "Traveling w/ Traffic"
or show a Police car icon with the front facing forward on the display !! -
AnnaQ commented
Waze*!
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Anonymous commented
Police moving
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Anonymous commented
Real problem when the officer comes from behind you.
I suggest adding "a policeman Moves forward" under "policeman" to Warning drivers in front of you.
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Ken commented
I would like a button to show police that are traveling along side me and for them to stay on the map for 2-5 miles then come off. It will give drivers a notice as to what's coming up. You could display them as a ghost vehicle since they aren't stopped on the highway. Please consider it.
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Ahhthatguy commented
Mobile police update. Add Police spotted. Direction headed, as in south, an auto line is added to map on that road for 1 to 2 miles. If someone doesn't see they can end or agree and it extends line and removes old line automatically. Simple steps...Touch police, touch mobile, touch direction, done.
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Badea Valentin commented
Sometimes a police car with radar is right behind or in front of your car and it goes along with you for some kilometers. During that trip, the wazers are vulnerable, because the radar is still working during this trip and no one can report it because it moves.
I think you could add a new feature called "I am Police" or something similar so that the cars travelling near the police car could activate as long as they are near. This way wazers could see the police coming towards them and slow down. -
Rarebit commented
I see some problems with, but I'm not completely against it... iCoyote has the same feature.
But: the moment you report a cop in motion, the data is stale: does it matter the cop was at your position 'in motion' 15 minutes before you are there, he's probably somewhere else now (else he would not be 'in motion'). So I think usefulness would be limited.
I would at least build in some annoyance factor when using the 'police tracking' feature. A beep from time to time e.g. so that people don't leave the option on.