Waze is likely one of the most well-liked navigation apps for a lot of as a result of its stay community-driven site visitors incident info — however what if the app warned you the place a crash may doubtless happen? A brand new beta model of the Google-owned app, as reported by Israeli tech information web site Geektime, can alert customers about roads which have statistically excessive crash occurrences based mostly on Waze neighborhood knowledge.
Whereas utilizing this new beta model of Waze, close by roads deemed to be high-risk are coloured purple on the map. Though, Geektime factors out that it could not do that for roads that the person usually travels on. The characteristic additionally solely pushes only one pop-up notification concerning the harmful roads across the driver, maybe in an effort to maintain precaution from turning into nervousness.
Should you’re within the nation and have entry to the beta launch, you’ll get a pop-up that states: “utilizing reviews from drivers and your route, you might even see alerts for ‘Historical past of crashes’ on some roads.” Whereas the characteristic is simply in beta, it’s more likely to launch to most of the people quickly. However if you happen to would reasonably not have Waze paint the roads purple when it comes out, the characteristic might be turned off with a toggle positioned below the app’s settings part designated for alerts.
It’s one of many first new options to come back out of Waze because the firm was rolled into the group that oversees Google Maps. Google introduced that merger earlier this month, and now with Waze below Google Geo, Waze’s head of PR Caroline Bourdeau instructed The Verge, “the groups will profit from additional elevated technical collaboration.” The change additionally included Waze CEO Neha Parikh exiting, all similtaneously Google seems to be to chop prices company-wide. Ideally, now that Waze is sharing extra intently with Maps, extra collaborative person knowledge could possibly be crunched and develop into new options sooner or later.