The Waze maps app— the one Google acquired a few years back to improve its own mapping services—today announced a new features that will warn drivers when they are driving over the speed limit.
Now when you’re using the Waze app to navigate, you’ll automatically see a visual warning (pictured above) if you go over the speed limit, and you can also manually set audio warnings for reaching the limit or hitting 5, 10 or 15% over.
And like many of the other features in Waze, the data for speed limits is being sourced by the community with the company noting that its contributors have “input and verified speed limits on our Map Editor” to make the feature possible.
The new speed limit warnings feature is rolling out first to Waze users in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, Tobago and Uruguay alongside today’s announcement. But the company says it will arrive later for users elsewhere.
You can download the free Waze app for iPhone and iPad on the App Store.
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So you mean Waze will not shut up when I’m behind the wheel?
US??
Didn’t care to read the article?
“the company says it will arrive later for users elsewhere.”
I wonder how it’s going to do that if the app does’nt know the speed limit for certain roads unless you have to enter it.
Exactly the same way it knows when there’s traffic, police, construction, etc. Community input.
I wish it worked with Apple Watch.
Yes – because I want you staring down at your wrist while you’re driving.
Actually, the wrist based tapping navigation for the default maps app is pretty good, and doesn’t require you to look at your wrist at all.
Can anyone tell me if Waze supports Car Play? Can’t find anything conclusive and I’ll be getting Car Play soon D:
It doesn’t yet, unfortunately. Only Apple Maps.
No USA support.