{"id":1200294,"date":"2023-11-07T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200294"},"modified":"2023-11-07T08:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T13:00:37","slug":"waze-will-now-warn-drivers-about-crash-dangers-using-historical-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200294","title":{"rendered":"Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Crash-History-Alerts_Still_2096x1182-800x451-1.png\" alt=\"A screenshot from Waze\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Crash-History-Alerts_Still_2096x1182.png\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1182\" data-width=\"2096\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The Waze crash history alerts look like this. (credit: Waze)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Traffic navigation app Waze is adding a new feature to its toolbox today. It&#8217;s called crash history alerts, and it&#8217;s meant to warn drivers about dangerous hotspots, based on a combination of historical data plus road and traffic data.<\/p>\n<p>Originally an independent startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2013\/06\/google-acquires-waze-for-real-this-time-likely-for-1b-plus\/\">in 2013<\/a> Google purchased the Israeli company for $1.15 billion, perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2013\/01\/apple-may-buy-social-navigation-app-waze-to-bolster-maps\/\">beating Apple to the punch<\/a>. Even before the purchase, Waze was becoming an Ars reader favorite thanks to more advanced traffic rerouting than either Google Maps or Apple Maps.<\/p>\n<p>It has not been entirely smooth <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">sailing<\/span>driving; for a while the app was infamous for asking drivers to make difficult left turns across busy multi-lane roads and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/04\/waze-blamed-for-rise-in-accidents-along-one-of-steepest-streets-in-us\/\">routing cars through once-quiet neighborhoods as shortcuts<\/a>, aggravating the people who live in those neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1981908#p3\">Read 3 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1981908&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1981908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The Waze crash history alerts look like this. (credit: Waze) Traffic navigation app Waze is adding a new feature to its toolbox today. It&#8217;s called crash history alerts, and it&#8217;s meant to warn drivers about dangerous hotspots, based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1200294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}