Posts Tagged ‘navigation’

When Robin Met Waze . . .

Monday, November 26th, 2012

If you thought our roundup of third-party apps with Waze integration was cool, then you’ll love this!

Robin, the Android app that serves as “your personal eyes-free assistant on the road,” has incorporated Waze into its latest update.

For those of you who don’t know, Robin “The Siri Challenger” is a great tool for finding local places, real-time parking, weather, your Twitter news and much more.

Now Robin users can navigate to any of their desired locations using Waze. After downloading Robin, you’ll be prompted the first time you ask to navigate somewhere whether or not you want to drive there with Waze, after which it’ll be the default app for all your drives.

Besides being a voice proxy to navigation, Robin also offers local search, hands-free texting, voice scheduling of reminders/alarms, email narration, a “personal interactive radio” (news, general and personal, from Robin’s News Room), narration of social feeds, and even posting to Facebook by voice.

Still not impressed? Robin can also tell you jokes to keep you entertained behind the wheel.

Oh, and in case you’re harboring any dreams of being a secret agent . . .

Road Musings: Wazer Matt D. Talks Board Meetings, Sunglasses and Rejection

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Matt busy at a board meeting.

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Waze ridealong with Palo Alto Police

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

In this interview Waze goes on the road with Michael from the Palo Alto Police Department. Michael used to be a software developer – specializing in maps in fact – and we had a great time driving around Palo Alto and talking about the kinds of data he needed and used every day.

Augmented Reality Developer, Anselm Hook, takes Waze on rides with some of our favorite road geeks and fellow drivers around the Bay Area bringing back their stories. Here at Waze, we love drivers, we want to know how they drive and why, where they’re going and what awaits them. Every driver has their own adventure. Anselm will be posting several driver reports and we are extending an invitation to any and all Wazers to send us reports from the road!

Anselm says “We wanted to get a sense of what it means to be a driver. What does it mean to need to navigate the road and to understand the road? What tricks and techniques do road warriors use? All of this input helps Waze shape our products in turn. I interviewed a bunch of people who drove every day – ranging from Fedex, to flower truck drivers, to Police. These are their stories.”

What’s it like on your own daily drive, road trip, side street? Send us traffic reports, driving videos, interviews! How do you use Waze? What do you see around you? What are the road conditions like? Post your 3 to 5 minute report from the road and send us the link! diann-at-waze.com

We’ll feature our favorite road reports on our blog, so send us your best drive!

Happy Wazing

Waze Hits The Road with FedEx

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

In this interview Waze goes on the road with Ruben from Fedex to explore his daily drive in and around San Francisco. Augmented Reality Developer, Anselm Hook, takes Waze on rides with some of our favorite road geeks and fellow drivers around the Bay Area bringing back their stories. Here at Waze, we love drivers, we want to know how they drive and why, where they’re going and what awaits them. Every driver has their own adventure. Anselm will be posting several driver reports and we are extending an invitation to any and all Wazers to send us reports from the road!

Anselm says “We wanted to get a sense of what it means to be a driver. What does it mean to need to navigate the road and to understand the road? What tricks and techniques do road warriors use? All of this input helps Waze shape our products in turn. I interviewed a bunch of people who drove every day – ranging from Fedex, to flower truck drivers, to Police. These are their stories.”

What’s it like on your own daily drive, road trip, side street? Send us traffic reports, driving videos, interviews! How do you use Waze? What do you see around you? What are the road conditions like? Post your 3 to 5 minute report from the road and send us the link! diann-at-waze.com

We’ll feature our favorite road reports on our blog, so send us your best drive!

Happy Wazing