Waze rolls out crash history alerts for accident-prone roads

Waze has a new safety feature that launches an alert when drivers are coming up on a particularly crash-prone section of their route. Waze’s blog post says the feature, which has been in beta since last year, uses “historical crash data and key information about your route” like traffic levels or what kind of road it is to generate the warnings. Seeing if a route is crash-prone means drivers can be more alert, or that seems to be Waze’s hope.

Waze’s head of PR, Caroline Bourdeau, clarified to The Verge in an email that the warnings, which are based on community alerts, don’t take into account whether car accidents involve other vehicles, pedestrians, or cyclists. Google has owned Waze for about a decade now, and that has yielded fruit for the Google Maps app as it siphons off some of Waze’s features, like incident reporting or a speedometer. It goes both ways, too, like the time Waze ported over Google Maps’ lane guidance.

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