Not sure an alert to a history of crashes is great. Now people will take their eyes off the road to read a notification instead of watching the road
In my country there’s sometimes signs that say something like “caution: accident prone area”. I never thought it distracting when driving.
You do know that the entire point of waze is to give you alerts to things like crashes and roadworks etc, right? Right?
And, instead of safely driving the road conditions, they’ll wonder where exactly others have crashed and why?
Definitely an unnecessary distraction. I really think the devs for this app don’t drive. They either ride a bike or commute via subway/bus.
What do you mean? Is it a bad idea to prompt people driving vehicles moving over 70 mph as to whether there was a speed trap? But then how will the next people know that need to stop speeding for the next couple miles before they can speed again without recourse?
Literally its best feature. Y’all are fuckin buggin
I had to turn off the distracting lane assist/warning feature because of so many false positives from inconsistent lane markings, especially in construction zones.
A few warnings is great, too many are so distracting.
That’s a Waze feature??
Just a general comment about excessive false positive warnings.
I wonder if just having a color coded indicator bar, or a unique icon that pops up would work better than a text-based alert.
This will be amazing. Even if it saves one life (and it will likely save many), it’s a very welcome change
Agreed. Don’t understand why people use Google Maps over Waze unless you’re not in a car.
Now if only every state did vehicle inspections and enforced the laws…
Or better yet, if only engineers did their fucking jobs and fixed negligently-designed areas to be less dangerous.
Edit: I say that as an engineer criticizing my own profession from the inside, by the way.
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Sure, but a lot more crashes are caused by poor design (including design that facilititates law-breaking) than mechanical failures or lack of enforcement.
In particular, I want to address the latter: trying to stop people from speeding by having more police patrols simply doesn’t work. The only thing that does work is physically changing the design of the street (narrowing lanes, etc.) to make it scarier and less comfortable for drivers to go too fast. That’s the engineers’ responsibility, not law enforcement’s.
Seriously - the most dangerous roads I’ve ever been on were in Texas where there were 12 lane highways, and crazy people who wanted to drive 100MPH past you in the right-hand lane, all while people are merging on and off the highway.
Doing the speed limit meant that EVERYONE was driving faster than you, which meant that you were a lot more likely to get rear-ended from someone who didn’t see you in time. You have to speed to stay safe, and then you add in construction zones and it’s just a death trap.
Where is our public transportation option?
*crashes while reading Waze prompt about crashes
Exactly. Driving… Driving…BEEP BOOP!..What was that?CRASH!!
Probability of death along this route 12.9 percent, acceptable
Isn’t it a little late to alert someone of a crash after it’s already a historical fact?
