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add option to disable traffic based routing
When routing, waze often attempts to route around traffic. Waze is used occasionally for just the first part of a journey (navigating a downtown area, for example) and I find it selecting a completely different route every time I use it because it attempts to route around the traffic at work.
Another example is that during extremely heavy traffic in a snowstorm, waze had me exiting at every freeway exit and then entering the freeway again, simply because the freeway exits had little traffic on them compared to the freeway itself.
Because of this, there should be a simpler…
5 votes -
Color Coding for "Traffic" Reports Indication
To Use different Color Codes for :
"Moderate" - "Yellow" Color
"Heavy" - "Orange" Color
"Standstill" - "Red" ColorThis will indirectly help us to minimize our attention to the Screen without touch the Icon for Status of that Traffic in that location. It is good to Ease of Reference as Currently, I need to Press on that Icon Everything while on the move which is quite dangerous sometimes.30 votes -
Alert: Excessive traffic deceleration.
Irrespective of cause, unusually great deceleration of one vehicle is a hazard for the vehicles behind - at least on highways with average speed above that of city traffic.
Real-time alerts from the Waze system via our community of users may offer a unique opportunity to prevent (or reduce injuries and damage of) highway mass crashes.Various alerting criteria may be used e.g:
Client accelerometers (or GPS-speed time derivatives) indicating a deceleration greater than, say, the 80th percentile for that road (segment) or average speed level - established by Waze server statistics.7 votes -
WAZE should allow user to change Traffic Jam status to none
I have driven past & through areas that show traffic slowdowns/jams on WAZE but the traffic is flowing fine. I can find nowhere in WAZE to delete the Traffic Jam problem or change the status to NO slowdown like I can when Hazard or Police is no longer there.
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Standstill Traffic
Standstill Traffic - Please amend this feature to show the congestion AHEAD of my location, not behind me! I don't get to the head of the queue and then tell everybody about it.
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Move traffic alerts
Move traffic alerts / keep navigation instructions stationary. There are a lot of traffic alerts and they keep sliding the nav instructions over during important turns and it makes the instructions smaller and more difficult to read quickly.
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Add a traffic bar to map
Have a "Traffic Bar" that appear in the routes screen overlayed on the main map.
add a car to the bar that moves along with your journeys completion.
So when you are 85 percent home, the car has moved 85 percent up the bar.Also when the Bar-Car (Maybe we should think of a better name) gets near an event an audible alert gets triggered, like when you near a Cop it could say “Oh cock, its the Rozzers!” Or just “Police reported ahead”) Or when you are near a obstacle on road you could be warned – e.g.…
467 votesGreat thinking! The issue you raised has been addressed in a recent redesign. Hope you like it!
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report route change due to traffic
It happens a lot that the route is taking me to a heavy traffic road. I turn to avoid it, but can't report it. It would be great to have a pop-up when avoiding the suggested route to ask if it's due to traffic
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Traffic Jam
Waze use to reroute drivers when traffic jam is detected. Rather it's standstill, heavy, or moderate. Now it takes you through it even if it's standstill or heavy. When you manually reroute yourself by exiting the highway. It tries to reroute you back into it instead of choosing the next best route. The only thing that keeps me from doing back to Google is that Google don't show speed limits fast n reports takes some time before you can create a crew report .
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Use accelerometers and gyroscopes to suppliment GPS data
Use accelerometers and gyroscopes to increase accuracy of location with with virtually no power increase. It would also allow navigation through tunnels and such when GPS location is lost. It would also prevent erroneous movement while stopped at a traffic light. There are companies testing this type of technology. One that I have been following but have no financial interest in is navisens.com There are videos from navisens at https://www.youtube.com/user/navisens
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Detect when Traffic has cleared with volunteers
Reports of bad traffic persist long after the condition has cleared. Maybe Waze could send volunteer ‘sacrificial lambs’ through heavy traffic areas to monitor traffic, maybe even pay them?
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Beep and messaging in traffic
I think bringing back the beeping and messaging functions while in traffic can be useful for drivers to talk and possibly discuss alternate routes.
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Safe drive Motivators
Alongside with the pop-up commercials that appear once I stop on traffic light or something, you can occasionally add some "Safe Drive" motivators, like: "Slow down, somebody waits you back home". You know, to make people think for a sec about how they act on the road.
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One button for the end of traffic jam.
Then you can see how long the traffic jam is.
6 votes -
Please open Carpool for Guatemala to reduce traffic
Please open Carpool for Guatemala to reduce traffic
Great benefits to bring Carpool to Guatemala: -
- Reduce the amount of cars on the road during peak hour traffic (4 am-10am) and (4pm-9pm). At this time, it is blocked to the network and can take up to 3 hours to enter and leave the capital (Guatemala City)
- Car ownership is prohibitively expensive
- Public transport is risky and not reliable.
- be environmentally conscious of the earth because they are more economical people in movement
Help our little Country to be better and more responsible. Help to bring Waze Carpool to Guatemala
Alternative…
69 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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Hazard> Road needs repaving very bumpy
Under HAZARD> Be careful! Road very bumpy, needs repaving
Hazard> Road and/or Highway has NO street lights, Be careful driving
Hazard> Wildlife, seen on/ or on side of road.
HAZARD> Left lane closed
HAZARD> Right lane closed
Hazard> Make an option as to which side of highway or road accident was reported on left or right.
REPORT> New traffic light added.
HAZZARD> Crash over, vehicles still pulled over
REPORT> Crash/ Accident over, tow truck on road to remove vehicle
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Traffic reports should end at logical intersection
Traffic reports should end at the next logical intersection: I am active with reporting traffic, because I hope the people leaving after me benefit from the reports. The cars stopped on the road don't care about the map editor and, most times, the traffic is at least running through to the next intersection.
That being said, MANY of my traffic reports stop randomly due to the segments drawn in the map editor. This is illogical.
(I get 'yelled at' for multiple reports when I try to update the true distance of the dead-stop traffic and this would be an…
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change the traffic jam categories
Change the Traffic Jam Categories from "Moderate, Heavy, and Standstill" to "Heavy, Stop N Go, and Standstill"
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Make Traffic Slowdowns More Visible when using Directions
Invert the color scheme when using directions so the purple stripe is not overshadowing traffic red/yellow/orange. Example: https://twitter.com/steviecoolest/status/723576075452841985
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Add restriction for thru traffic
The editor should offer a restriction against thru traffic. While standard guidance for these roads is to use "Private Road" type in the U.S., this road type is misleading, as many of these roads that prohibit thru traffic are in fact public roads.
1 voteThank you for your suggestion!
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