Although when we talk about map services, the first thing that comes to my mind is Google Maps, We must not forget about alternatives like Wazewhich in many cases focus on specific functions that make them best suited for certain purposes. Of course, at this point, we must not forget that Waze has a big advantage over its rivals, and that is that Google bought the platform back in 2013, three years after the service’s debut.

Unlike other map services that competed on their own to collect and offer as much information as possible, Waze opted for a very different and successful model, by focusing on the information provided by your userseither passively (for example, when traveling on roads that were not yet on their maps) or actively, they report all types of eventualities found on the road. In fact, unlike what happens with conventional map services, Waze users are called wazersand today the information they provide continues to be a big differentiator of the service.

His development was undoubtedly spectacular. I still remember when I tried it more out of curiosity than necessity, very, very early in the last decade, I was traveling on roads that didn’t appear on their maps, and I knew that it was me (I understand that together with other users, of course) who “called” him in the service of his existence. Today, in this sense, everything is significantly different, and although quantitatively speaking, Waze does not have as much information as some of its rivals, it is able to provide all the necessary information and much more, which is most useful on the road.

To this end, as I indicated earlier, there was participation wazers This is necessary because they are directly responsible for reporting all types of incidents on the road. And this is where the artificial intelligence of search engine technology comes into play and that’s it Waze is testing Google Gemini integration to make reporting traffic accidents as easy as possible. Specifically, this test consists of using artificial intelligence to interpret the user’s voice instructions to automatically generate an incident report that the user wants to record on the map.

So, Waze eliminates the risk of having to actively use the app to record this information while driving or, of course, that due to the impossibility of doing so, the events are not reported. At the moment, the feature has begun to roll out among selected users of the service in English, both for iOS and Android, but in the coming months it is planned to reach more users and languages, as we can read. on his official blog.