Waze now cautions drivers approaching dangerous intersections 

A lot of drivers nowadays rely on navigation apps to help them reach destinations faster or drive around unfamiliar areas. Waze is one of the more popular ones available for mobile and so 5 major cities in the US are now partnering with them to caution drivers as they approach dangerous areas, based on data from the waze itself and from the local governments. This will hopefully eventually remove those areas from that category as fewer incidents should occur there.

The 5 cities involved in this project are Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Obviously, these are some of the busiest in terms of population and automobile traffic, in the country. The dangerous areas and intersections were determined not just from the data from Waze, but also from The City of Boston, City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), New York Police Department, San Francisco Department of Public Health and the District Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C.

With the pooled data from these agencies and Waze itself, they determined the areas where there were high collision rates, high injury rates, a high number of vehicle to vehicle incidents, vehicle to bike incidents, and vehicle to pedestrian incidents. When you approach any of these areas, Waze will warn you with a voice and graphic notification and reminder to drive safely while approaching.

This is a pretty neat idea, and hopefully, this will go beyond just those five cities. And also, we hope that drivers will not get distracted with the notifications, therefore resulting in an incident or accident.

SOURCE: Waze