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Match multiple riders to unlock HOV for everyone
In the San Francisco Bay Area, and many other municipalities, HOV lanes require 3 or more people to use. If Waze Rider had a feature that let you request an HOV carpool only, and would enable multiple matches so that you could get 3 people in the car (driver + 2 riders), everyone would save 45 minutes of traffic. That would be a huge incentive to get people to use the app, meaning easier and more matches and fewer cars on the road.
Add HOV matching!
4 votesChanging this to Not Planned, as it doesn't fit on our roadmap in the near future. We'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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feature suggestion, pop up reports when there are traffic issues to any of the destinations on your favorites list
we all have favorites saved. waze should pop up a warning when it detects we are travelling and warn of accidents and such in a route to any of the destinations, we could then click to find an alternate route and have from there. also, what about a warning when there are serious accidents near home and work locations.
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Slow driver button
When someone notices that there’s not traffic but just a slow driver slowing people down you can push that to let people know.
3 votes -
Traffic volume (number of vehicles) per road segment per 5-min interval
It would be great to have a real time information about the number of vehicles that pass through a given location (sensor measuring this info) or through a road segment in five-minute time intervals. Such sampling will give an excellent snapshot of the current status, which is valued by anyone on the road. Especially relevant for city centres but also major highways/freeways.
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Navigations options need an update. Shorter time should not be the only underlying optimisation indicator.
I prefer to add 5 to 20% of time if my journey will be fluid with no stress of traffic jams…Please add to your algorithm a search with no traffic jams or traffic satuation thanks
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Queue the reports in background
There are 2 situation:
1) sometime where there is a short loss of data connection and I try to send a traffic report on Waze it tells me there isn't connectivity and cannot send the report. This is not OK. The report should be put in a queue, in background, and when connectivity is back again (you can set a maximum time limit, for example 5 or 10 minutes) the report is sent automatically in the background. Meantime I should be able to queue more reports, as necessary.
2) when sending traffic reports there is a graphic round shape on…
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Warn a user if he/she cannot drive exactly to a target because of traffic limitations
If a target is located on a walking trail or a street not allowed for private cars, warn a user on the start of navigation and again when approaching the target that he/she is led to the nearest available point because of the above obstacle.
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Avoid Following a School Bus
It is always painful for drivers to catch and then follow a school bus for all its stops. Especially in cities, where it can result into big traffic jams. Can Waze partner with the school districts to provide live GPS data of school buses? It will be very beneficial if Waze can alert drivers about a school bus on their route, and give them an option to detour. This will save lots of time for drivers, and make it safer for the school buses because of less traffic.
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Fix the gas price functionality by adding additional shortcuts to update gas station prices and automatically remove old data
The current method of adding gas prices is apparently too hard for many Wazers to find. Editors are constantly receiving PURs regarding incorrect and out of date gas prices. I have three recommendations for where to add a shortcut:
- Add a button to the page that shows all of the gas stations near your location.
- Add a button on the gas station's info page right below the listed prices.
- If a user is located within the gas station area, give a popup (like when Waze detects a traffic jam).
The gas station price functionality has the potential to be much…
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Auto speed adjustment integration with cruise control and auto brake function. On highways only.
Because of fuel burned, brake pads worn, and accidents during traffic on highways and frustration of stopping on a highway for apparently no reason at all.
Wake has enough data on the highway to integrate with auto manufacturers Cruise Control and auto braking function to keep all traffic flowing a almost constant speed. Without the concertina effect caused by human speed adjustment error. Humans will never fully trust or do not want to wait for or would possibly even afford a self driving car.
This system would only be available on highly congested highways to keep the flow of vehicles…3 votes -
Report Extended Events
There are construction areas (for example) which stretch some length (a mile or more). It would be great to report these as an extended region, not a single point, since they're usually accompanied by a lower speed limit. They might be activated by an upward gesture of the report button (as opposed to the sideways gesture that the iPhone currently supports for traffic reporting).
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Consider route safety when sending shortest route
Please consider whether to route drivers around traffic into areas known for public safety issues.
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Better lane guidance
I like the idea of lane guidance but I would like it if it says stay in this or that lane instead of saying continue straight with arrows pointing up just like what Apple Maps does for example so that way people aren’t cutting across lanes of traffic which I see all the time and that includes turning left or right onto an intersection wether it has a traffic light or not I noticed Apple Maps for example says stay in the middle or left or right lane I would really like it if waze does what Apple Maps does…
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Use more user polling to keep alerts current
I love waze, but I often find that alerts on the map or 30-40-60+ minutes old and no longer relevant. I'd suggest that every user who drive past a reported even be polled.
Even better would be to not award points for reported events until they've been validated by a different user (or reward partial points until validation). Token points should also be awarded for answering a poll - and polling it should be able to be disabled.
I imaging something like:
"Poll: A Wazer has reported standstill traffic at your location" options would be "Agree - Standstill traffic"…
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Helishot
An interesting idea has come to my mind
Sometimes we are in traffic, but we want to know the way ahead, we usually check the map with our fingers.
This is my ideaWhen we are in traffic, Fly to fly like a helishot
Waze looks like a heli shotCheck the route
Go above the traffic
Show us where there is traffic
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facebook share
Traffic information groups on Facebook are popular. However, members distribute accidents and traffic jams in text or photos. If waze were able to share a congestion, everyone would see a waze instead of text, photos, and the sharing could include exact positions. Last but not least, Waze would also have an advertisement if everyone saw Waze congestion pictures. (congestion > waze > share facebook > Waze pictures+gps position+map congestion)
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Suggestion on reporting police traps.
Many people incorrectly report police traps when on a major highway and there is a substantial divide between north and south lanes (woods or grass). An example is I am heading south and see a police vehicle hidden in the woods looking at northbound traffic. I have now way to select other side and hidden together. So people select hidden but it shows up to southbound traffic when in fact it should warn northbound traffic.
A few more choices/selections/modifiers in all categories would help pin dow types and location of issues.
I would love to be part of…3 votes -
Add a simulation mode
Imagine you’re in a city or country that you don’t know and tomorrow it’s a monday, you have to be in a client’s office at 8AM. What time should I leave my hotel? I don’t know of monday morning I’ll find heavy traffic...
Maybe if waze had stored a traffic log (standards) from last week (for example), waze could give me (1 or 2 days in advance) a simulation of how long I’d take to head to my client’s office so I could get better prepared/planned.2 votes -
4.70.1.0 for Android - disable automatic "recent locations" tab
Why would you even bother adding such a thing? I don't need it. I know where to go for recent locations. I don't want to see it pop up every time I start waze.
Keep up these "improvements" and I'll be switching apps. Stop dumbing down the UI. Quit piling more and more crap on the main screen. There is no point. I want a map. I want traffic (audible) alerts. When using a destination, I want audible turn-by-turn directions. THAT'S ALL.
And TURN OFF THAT DAMNED CHIRP. Or, give me a toggle where I can turn it off. I'm…
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Features to add
Automatically change of routes on missing out the junction.
Show traffic affected route in different colour.
Update the road with any obstructions like road closure, traffic, hazardous situation, real time traffic situation.
Currently it is just showing route from point A to point B. Its of no use.
1 vote
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