Recently I’ve been noticing more and more “fake” reports about traffic flow (“red” lines on a free-flowing roads or on minor local roads with barely any traffic) and traffic incidents, police presence and things like gasoline prices and traffic light cameras… The traffic light camera near the intersection of the street leading to our community has been “jumping” to nearby intersections almost every day, even after I have tried to correct its location several times!
What’s even worse is there’s no easy way to see which user did things like traffic light camera re-location or mark such change as “incorrect” and prevent anyone else from intentionally trying to do such changes to recently “abused” item/location… If anyone can easily abuse things like traffic light camera location or traffic flow (by intentionally slowing down and moving at a very slow pace or just randomly pressing the “traffic jam” button in their app) or gasoline prices (the gas station owners can do this to prevent people from visiting the competing stations), over and over - what’s the point of trying to use such unreliable app at all???
Are there any plans to add some kind of protection against such intentional (or sometimes accidental) vandalism? Maybe prevent anonymous users with low “score” from making certain reports? Or “downvoting” some wrong reports (including traffic flow and gasoline prices) which would give a negative score to reported user (and then automatically “ban” such user after certain score), all directly within the mobile app?
The red and yellow lines on the roads are created by real traffic. There’s no way to trigger these through the menus. Only the pins on the maps are user-created. It’s possible that these have been triggered by someone who stopped on or near a road and left Waze running. In some cases where this happens a lot, such as near a gas station or fast food place, it may be necessary to add a parking lot road to that business so that they’ll snap to the parking lot instead of the road.
Red Light and Speed Cameras can’t be moved around that easily and the editor shows whoever made the last change to it. If people are messing with them, you can get a level 5 to lock them down and that will prevent lower level users from changing them.
Other reports such as accidents, hazards and police visible stay on the map for a while, and it’s possible that if you see them, and the problem isn’t there, it may have already cleared.