A few days after completely changing the traffic camera reports so that the warning is more general, the Google application for maps and navigation is now ready for the general deployment of an important new feature that will alert of all incidents that occur on the road. From now on will pull directly from Waze when their users report them.
Waze has always been characterized by the very valuable information provided by all its users when they are driving their vehicle and they warn of an object on the road when a vehicle appears stopped on the shoulder. The Waze algorithm was responsible for collecting these alerts to provide information on road conditions in real time like no other application has done.
When Google acquired Waze in June 2013 for $1.3 billion, it was expected somehow cross-reference the data collected by the driving community of the application with the smiling car icon in blue. But it wasn't, and the tech giant kept it independent, even as it brought some of its best features to Google Maps.
Google has now mentioned that Maps will show reports from Waze users to be confirmed while driving. This new Google Maps feature begins rolling out today.
Google already indicated at the end of July that the improved traffic reports interface for Android, iOS, Android Auto, CarPlay and Android Automotive would start showing data from from the Waze and Maps driver communities.
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And precisely, as a user was able to share, you can read in the incident alert as The information or data comes from Waze. Waze announced in late July that the first reports coming from Waze would come from police, and other types of data are expected to start being shared soon.
From 9to5Google You can see how these alerts now work in a screenshot with a notice that appears in the interface saying “Police reported in advance.” We can clearly read that it is an alert that comes from the Waze drivers, and then the question “Is it still there?” be able to respond with two buttons of significant proportions with “Yes” or “No”.
As with the rest of the alerts, if there is no response, they disappear in a few seconds so that the user remains focused on the road. An important fact of this update is that now the two applications feed each other with data they pass through, so Waze can also display alerts from Maps.
Google Maps surpassed 2,000 million active users a few months ago and the end of 2022, Waze had 151 million, so even if we now use one or the other, real-time accident incidents will be present in both applications.
