Waze is currently testing a new feature that warns drivers when driving on dangerous roads, with a higher than average accident rate. A preventative way to reduce risk.
with some With 151 million users worldwide, Waze is unquestionably one of drivers’ favorite navigation apps. It’s so popular that, even though its teams have merged with those of Google Maps, the two applications remain very distinct – but they will be able to rely on each other’s data. Unlike Google Maps, it seems Waze wants to continue to focus on helping the community – after all, that’s what made it successful. In addition to being able to indicate speed limits, accidents or even danger and road control zones in real time, the Israeli application intends to improve its prevention tools by alerting motorists if they take roads that have a rate statistically higher than average. In effect, Geektime spotted a new feature in the latest beta version of Waze that notifies users when they enter a path known to be dangerous. The goal ? Reduce the number of road accidents and make driving safer.
Waze: an alert for accident-prone roads
The new Waze function will warn the driver that he is about to enter an accident-prone road, with a high history of road accidents and collisions. For this, the application sounds an alert indicating the length of the dangerous section and coloring in red, in a clearly visible way. To note that the function only sends a single pop-up notification on dangerous roads around the driver, in order to avoid being too anxiety-provoking.
For those who do not wish to take advantage of this new function, it will be possible to deactivate it by going to the Waze settings, and more precisely in the Notifications and reports section. A new section titled Traffic Accident History will also appear. As this new function is currently only present on the latest beta version of Waze, you will have to be patient before you can take advantage of it, but there is no doubt that it should be soon. And, now that the Google Maps and Waze teams have merged, it can be expected that more collaborative user data will be processed and become new functions in the future.