Memorial Day is 3 days away, the “unofficial” start of the summer driving season. About 30.9 million people are expected to plan to drive to their destinations over the weekend. As you pack the car today with the kids, friends, pets and coolers make sure you plug in your route and save yourself from traffic congestion along with saving on gas.

A Few Numbers:
-Every gallon of fuel that is burned produces about 20 pounds of CO2
-You use about 0.026 gallons of gasoline for every 10 minutes of idling, which costs about 5 cents
-This adds up to about 9.5 ounces of CO2 for those 10 minutes

That means if we can reduce even just 10% of the gasoline burned, we can help save $104 million dollars and 520 million tones of CO2 this weekend alone!

With that being said, you can drive smarter, safer and allow yourselves more time to spend at your BBQ!
Enjoy the parades, fireworks & lounge chairs. Be safe & Happy Wazing!

We’ve got a new version up and out in the Appstore with a glorious 5 star rating – and that’s what we like to see! Did you know that with each new version the reviews and ratings start from scratch? We’d love to keep those 5 stars shining below our name for as long as possible, so if you wanna help with the effort, don’t forget to search for ‘Waze’ on the Appstore, visit our page, scroll down and click our Ratings button and leave your feedback and star-rating, too…Many thanks, in advance, for your help, Wazers!

Hey wazers!

Well you all knew that citizen traffic was able save you a few minutes on your commute, but did you know that it’s saving you $$ on gas too? Yep, your dedication to helping each other on the road is yielding some wonderful results-

Waze has been blowing up in the news in the context of saving gas. The TrueCar.com first reported it, and we’ve since been picked up in places like the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles, Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and TV stations across America! We’re thrilled that people are starting to really see the positive effects on their wallets as well as their time and the environment.

Check out some of the wonderful things the media has been saying about Waze =)

As always, we want to thank you, our amazing community for helping us continue to perfect our little app, for promoting community-conscious driving worldwide, and spreading the word about citizen traffic. We’re humbled.

In the meantime, keep checking back for updates, keep sending in your logs, and most importantly, keep on wazing in the free world-

-Team Waze

Woo hoo! Today we hit the #1 spot on the Appstore, and that gives us all huge smiles around the office. Mainly ’cause it means more exposure, which means more wazers, which means better traffic info for all, which means smarter commuting, which means happier people with more free time, which means less road rage, which means more…Love – and at the end of the day, it’s all about Love, right?  ;-)

There are all kindsa tips and tricks that you might not know about when you get started, but that can make your wazing experience waaaay better once you’re out there on the road. We wanted to clue you into the stuff you might not know, so we’ve started creating these little videos to better explain some of the more hidden aspects of what waze has to offer. We only have four of them done right now but they’re mighty cute (if we can say so, ourselves) and we hope you enjoy them! We’ll post the rest once they’re ready…