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Another vote here, I was about to make a similar suggestion...
I too mainly use routes I know very well like the daily commute hence you don't have voice directions turned on. They soon get annoying otherwise, especially if you have a passenger.
When you start Waze up, it finds your route home/work and shows a little display of any traffic on your route, but this is not a map. So if Waze HAS re-routed you already away from traffic on your normal route and hence now shows no traffic on your new route, you don't realise this, you're not made aware it's not the normal route.
So you think great, no traffic on the way home and off you go. Without the voice prompts you're not aware Waze is trying to get you to turn off so you end up hitting traffic!
Once when I was caught out by this, after I passed the last junction where I could turn off to avoid the traffic jam, Waze then had to reroute me down the normal route and into the traffic. Only then did a voice announcement warn me of traffic ahead. Of course this happened just a few hundred yards past the last junction so I was not happy! If only it could say "turn off to avoid traffic on normal route"!!!
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Waze pops up a message to tell me my brother (a Facebook friend) is now driving... great!... or would be if I could see him!
I mean, why tell me he's driving if you won't let me see where he is? What's the point in telling me? There's no button to simply jump to him on the map and if I manually scroll between his place of work and his home (it's normally on his drive home that Waze tells me he is driving) then I can't find him either (but I can see other Wazers). So again, what's the point unless you're going to actually let me see him on the map?
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This would give Waze a huge boost. So many good reasons to have this:
This morning there is a big accident on a major road (dual-carriage way) near me. Police have closed the road in both directions, diversions set up. I (thankfully) can't get to the location of the accident or even the point where the road is closed, there's no point me hitting the report button where I am now but I know what's going on from reports on the local radio and from text messages from colleagues stuck in the traffic jam! If I could pin point on a map then report the accident / road closure (which we can't do anyway) or traffic jam, that would be a big help to other Wazers currently out on the road.
Reporting a "gas"/petrol station... you pass the station, press the gas prices button, after a while the client reports no station found, ok, so you can do a map update request, but by now you're half a mile or more down the road.
Maybe there's a small but significant hazard on the road you've just passed, you need to be accurate in the reporting location but again, you're several hundred yards past it by the time you hit the report button.
Some people are worried about abuse of this system, maybe limit this feature to people with a minimum number of points or not "newbies" or something.
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Agree. At the moment you might come accross a hazard such as an accident with a traffic queue. You try to report the hazard but no, you have no phone signal so Waze won't let you record it, telling you to try again later (when you do have a signal).
But of course, you might have to drive a few miles further before you get a signal and there's no point reporting a hazard that's miles out of position. You might not even be on the same road any more.
Waze needs to cache any hazard reports in an offline mode, then once you have a data signal back, upload the report, (hence the report will be in the correct location of the hazard).
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This is important. As others stated, for a route you use day in day out, you don't want or need audible directions all the time so you turn off the audible routing guidance but you do tend to keep audible alerts on for various things.
Waze should recognise what would be the "normal" route and know when it's re-routed you due to a problem ahead.
This should be announced as an alert so we take notice and don't just drive home on "autopilot" oblivious to the re-routing and end up in traffic. It could be announced at the start of your drive if known about then or when the re-routing calculation takes place or better still, a little before you reach the junction where you need to go a different way to normal.