Difference between revisions of "Waze"
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| − | Waze is an innovative [[wikipedia:GPS|GPS]] mobile application for smartphones and tablets that relies on crowdsourcing for its traffic data. The app offers turn-by-turn directions, traffic reports, location of police, gas prices, road closures, and the ability to chat with other users. Now owned by [[wikipedia:Google|Google]], Waze is the world's largest community based-traffic and navigation app. <ref> [https://www.waze.com/ Waze.com] Retrieved 2016-1-12 </ref> | + | Waze is an innovative [[wikipedia:GPS|GPS]] mobile application for smartphones and tablets that relies on [[wikipedia:crowdsourcing|crowdsourcing]] for its traffic data. The app offers turn-by-turn directions, traffic reports, location of police, gas prices, road closures, and the ability to chat with other users. Now owned by [[wikipedia:Google|Google]], Waze is the world's largest community based-traffic and navigation app. <ref> [https://www.waze.com/ Waze.com] Retrieved 2016-1-12 </ref> |
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| + | Police cannot enforce the law | ||
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| − | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze] | + | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze Wikipedia Page] |
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Waze is an innovative GPS mobile application for smartphones and tablets that relies on crowdsourcing for its traffic data. The app offers turn-by-turn directions, traffic reports, location of police, gas prices, road closures, and the ability to chat with other users. Now owned by Google, Waze is the world's largest community based-traffic and navigation app. [1]
Contents
History
Israel app
Acquisition by Google
in 2013
Overview
Make an account, e-mail, profile, mood, scoreboard, points, levels
Settings General Sound, can change voice and language, can connect to bluetooth Navigation preferences, toll roads, freeways
can connect with people you know, facebook, twitter
Inbox with advice from Waze
Messaging with users
How to contribute traffic, police, accident, hazard, gas prices, chat, map issue, place, camera, closure
Personalization Home, Work, favorites, sync with calendar, sync with Facebook
Security Risk
Distracting drivers
Government Interaction
Using Waze to collect data or for public services such as garbage collection
Ethical Implications
Police cannot enforce the law
