Waze Rolling Out Railroad Crossing Alerts to More Countries

Wednesday August 12, 2020 7:11 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

Google-owned navigation app Waze today announced that it is expanding railroad crossing alerts to additional countries, including the United Kingdom, Italy, Israel, Brazil, Mexico, and others, according to The Verge. The safety feature quietly launched in the United States, Canada, and Belgium earlier this year.

waze railway crossing alert
Enabled by default, the alerts pop up in the Waze app when a driver is approaching a railroad crossing on a street. The feature can be disabled in Waze's in-app settings under Map display > Reports > Railroad crossing > Alert me while driving.

Waze is available for free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

In related news, Google Maps will be returning to the Apple Watch in the coming weeks. The app supports estimated arrival times and step-by-step directions on ‌the Apple Watch‌ when using saved destinations like Work or Home. Other destinations require navigation to start on the iPhone, with the directions then picked up by the ‌Apple Watch‌.

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Top Rated Comments

spinedoc77

80 months ago

Wow! That’s a useful feature! Apple should buy out Waze! What do you guys think?

Apple should have bought out Waze a long time ago, it would have made their maps app actually competitive. Crowd sourcing is incredible and once you use it you can never go back to a non crowd sourced navigation system. Apple looks primitive by comparison.

Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)

ericg301

80 months ago

I think Waze has too many niche features to use on my daily commute. I hated getting notifications for stopped cars ahead, or a pothole, or even the police...all just unnecessary.

dude those are literally the things you need for a daily commute. otherwise what's the point?

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

travis64

80 months ago

These notifications are so annoying

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

spinedoc77

80 months ago

LOL. "competitive." With a massive base of users, Apple Maps has long been the most used, by far, mapping app on its products, being used many BILLIONS of times each week.

Source? Although I don't doubt that's the case, certainly most consumers just use the preinstalled apps on their devices. But Waze still has a huge following and you can bet a lot of iOS users also use Waze as the crowd sourcing is just incredibly useful. You don't think Apple considers Waze a competitor to their Maps? It would be foolish to think that they don't consider them competition.

Personally I would never consider going back to a navigation app that didn't have crowd sourcing, it would just be going backwards too much.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

mtneer

80 months ago

They should integrate with train schedules and provide guidance around red lights at railroad crossings too. I hate to be stuck behind a 2 mile long freight train trundling along at 15mph.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

spinedoc77

80 months ago

I had no problem ditching Waze when I bought a new car and it kept incorrectly reporting the vehicle's speed and flashed endless warnings about how I was speeding when I was not. I looked for an option to disable the speed warnings and/or fake vehicle speed but it didn't have any.

Settings, Speedometer, Show speed limit, Don't show. You can also disable the audio alert, then you get a very small change of the speed limit icon to red, not a big deal. You can even set the alert at whatever speed over the limit you want, including percentages. But you can definitely just completely turn the alerts off, including the speed limit.

Otherwise that's odd yours was acting that way. I'm impressed with the speed limit accuracy, I always time it when passing a speed limit sign that changes the limit and it always changes within a second or 2.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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