*crashes while reading Waze prompt about crashes
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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Exactly. Driving... Driving...BEEP BOOP!...What was that?CRASH!!
It works that well.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
However, Waze says that to minimize distractions, it won't show these alerts on regularly traveled roads and will limit alerts on unfamiliar roads to prevent driver overload.
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
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
Seriously. Cops sitting to ticket people are essentially just applying an extra tax to fund their departments. Not giving that to them is a good thing.
I've more often seen unsafe driving conditions because of people slowing down to avoid a radar cop than when traffic is flowing predictably and consistently.
While I agree cops looking for money to fund their departments is bad, people willfully endangering those around them is objectively worse.
Speed limits are put in place to keep roads safer. Tickets are a thing meant to incentivize you not to do the dangerous thing that can hurt those around you.
This is literally a tool to help you avoid said punishment, which assists you in doing the dangerous thing with impunity.
I agree cops can be bad. I agree they sometimes are searching for a problem. I agree they often cause other problems.
But speed limits literally and undeniably enforce safety. Something that allows you to circumvent them without recourse literally assists people in doing the unsafe thing.
Sure, cops can be bad. But speeding is unsafe and therefore bad too. It's not black and white.
You know how else you can stop cops from making this money back? Without assisting in dangerous road behavior? Literally obeying the fucking driving laws. They can't give you a speeding ticket if you're not fucking speeding.
I really don't understand how this shit is even legal.
"Tell me where I can and can't break laws that were literally put in place so I don't accidentally fucking kill someone".
It's literally built to help people avoid the punishment made to keep people from doing something that's literally dangerous to the people around them.
The entire point of speed cameras is to reduce speeding, not to raise revenue. Waze reduces speeding.
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.
I mean it has a big bright icon that pops up, that's no different to your suggestion. Text simply being there too isn't any worse.
Is there any waze alternative based on openstreetmap?
Magic earth is the best, not open source though
Now if only every state did vehicle inspections and enforced the laws...
Probability of death along this route 12.9 percent, acceptable
Now tell me where the cops hide, even when theyβre not there
Isn't it a little late to alert someone of a crash after it's already a historical fact?