Waze is one of the best GPS navigators that we can download on our mobile phone, not only because of the information and maps it offers, but also because it has a large active community behind it. This is exactly what allowed Google (because Google owned both Google Maps and Waze after its acquisition in 2013) to include the function of seeing dangerous routes in the application.

About traffic accident history and is a function that is enabled by default, which we can choose to disable if we do not believe that it provides us with useful information, and that makes use of both AI algorithms and what users provide in their reports.

This is Waze’s crash history to see dangerous routes

In December last year, it was reported from Waze’s home country, Israel, that the application was testing a new function. This is this crash history that was already available in other regions, but was in a very geographically localized beta version at the time.

Now we can use this feature as we see on the Google support blog, but you may have already benefited from it because: automatically activated on our devices upon arrival.

As the company notes, these dangerous route warnings are the result of drivers’ history reports, which are combined with other parameters to send us alerts in the app, thanks to the company’s artificial intelligence algorithms.

These alerts are dynamic and take into account current traffic, day of the week, time., latest traffic accident reports and road conditions. There are many parameters that come together to create an alert, as you can see in the GIF below:

This means that if we are on a road with a history of serious accidents, a warning will appear at the bottom, but even these warnings have conditions. For example, if you drive frequently on the road, Waze assumes you know the situation and won’t send you notifications. It is a dangerous journey. Additionally, if a route has multiple roads with a long history of accidents, Waze will only send alerts to the areas where the concentration is highest.

And also warns that this is still a function This largely depends on user reports; Therefore, if there is no report, there is no history. and also the fact that a warning is not displayed on a road does not mean that there is no relevant accident history on that road.

The truth is that although it can be useful, it still has many advantages and is something to consider.. If there is a single point on a route where there are a lot of accidents, and this point is not actually a black spot, but rather an area where very minor accidents resulting from vehicle collisions are concentrated, for example, seeing such an announcement can be frightening. It makes us more careful, but it also causes more stress behind the wheel.

If you think this might happen to you, You can disable these crash history alerts at any time Go to ‘Settings’, ‘Alerts and alerts’ tab, click ‘notifications’ and select ‘Crash history’. Now, it is still a function that can be very useful if we do not know the road, and “saving your life” may seem like an exaggeration, but the more attention you pay to the road, the better.

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