Waze Beta Alerts Users Of Roads With History Of Crashes

Regardless of being a Google subsidiary, and a substitute for the web search big’s personal Maps navigation app, Waze nonetheless comes with extra options than the latter. New options added to the previous solely make their option to the latter method later, or typically by no means. However for itself, it seems to be like it could be getting one new characteristic of its personal, if its look within the beta model of the app in Israel is of any indication.

First reported by Israeli tech information web site Geektime, the newest beta model of Waze is getting a brand new characteristic that tells customers about roads with excessive accident stats. The report notes that the navigation app will use reviews from drivers and the route you might be on to indicate you “Historical past of crashes” on some roads. From the screenshots, it seems to be like while you’re heading into such a highway, you’ll get a notification on the backside indicating so.

One caveat to this, based on the report, is that Waze won’t present you this notification for roads you utilize usually. And in case your route would take you on a number of accident-prone roads, you’ll solely get the notification as soon as. The report says that that is in order that customers should not overwhelmed by the variety of notifications which is comprehensible. However on the identical time, it appears counterintuitive if Waze is just not telling you that you simply’re heading right into a probably harmful highway past the primary one.

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If you happen to select to take action, you possibly can flip off these notifications for roads with a historical past of crashes fully. The setting for this shall be positioned underneath Notifications. With that being mentioned, as is the case with options in beta, it stays to be seen when, or even when, this can make it to the general public model of Waze, and that it gained’t be unique to particular international locations.

(Supply: Geektime)

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