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Waze, the navigation assistant on my car’s video screen, warns me. Often. It uses the same calm voice that pilots use when turbulence is about to experienced. Thus, I’m alerted to a car on the ...
For many automotive enthusiasts, Waze is the mapping software of choice. The app's crowd-sourced, watchdog-style approach to road hazards and speed traps has made the Google-owned program a crowd ...
Waze now supports multifunction displays behind the steering wheel on select vehicles. This allows the app to display mapping route data closer to the driver’s line of sight, minimizing ...
Waze 5.4 adds support for heads-up displays It works on selected cars The update is rolling out across Android and iOS Waze version 5.4 is rolling out now for drivers across Android and iOS ...
Photo: Bogdan Popa/autoevolution That was Waze's job. Waze remained an online-only navigation solution offering state-of-the-art incident reporting. This ability eventually became its main selling ...
AAA auto club is touting a new emergency feature it is offering through the Waze and Google Maps navigation apps that, if you have car trouble, will alert other app users. More than another reason ...
Google bought Waze back in 2013. At the time it seemed inevitable that Waze would shut down and that its best features would end up in Google Maps, but the two apps remained surprisingly separate ...
He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Google Maps is now starting to show Waze incident reports while you navigate and includes the ability to contribute by confirming ...
We're not sure why it took so long to implement, but Google Maps users can now see Waze's (arguably superior) crowd-sourced incident report markers on their navigation routes. Don't worry ...
Third parties have been working on perfecting navigation apps since our phones replaced MapQuest, giving rise to Google and Apple Maps competitors like Waze. Though there are quite a few ...