There’s strong agreement across the Victorian Waze community that we need audible alerts for every speed camera, regardless of current speed.
At the moment, Waze only plays a sound if you’re already speeding. Otherwise, it’s a silent visual popup — and this creates real safety issues:
Motorcycle riders cannot safely look at their phones, and a silent popup is easily missed with wind, traffic, and other sensory load.
Car drivers can miss the popup too, especially in busy driving environments.
If a driver unintentionally speeds up within 500 m of a camera, Waze gives no warning at all, because the alert has already triggered silently.
Users who don’t want audio can simply turn audio off, but users who do want full audio alerts currently have no way to enable them — the app does not allow choosing “audio for all cameras.”
This request has been raised in the past, but we still don’t have a clear answer. If full audio alerts truly cannot be enabled, can we please be told why the “speed threshold” for triggering audio cannot simply be set to 0? That would give all users the same consistent audible warning, while still allowing anyone who prefers silence to turn audio off entirely.
Given Victoria’s mix of fixed, mobile, and red‑light/speed cameras reliable audio alerts would improve safety for all road users.
Just a courtesy this forum is supervised and responded by volunteer map editors and usually for all things map that require editing. As volunteer map editors we can directly and immediately assist with requests of that nature.
There are many improvements and enhancements being tested as Waze continues to expand permanent hazards - speed cameras are just one of the many types of permanent hazards.
Also as courtesy - changes as your suggesting are usually done at the Country level if they are enacted - I’m just appreciative you’ve constrained your request to Victoria only.
That’s what I was going to suggest and if I may encourage you to tap into the majority of Victorian Waze Community of which there will be many hundreds of thousand monthly users - even if the majority each submitted their 3 votes you would very quickly have a suggestion that would shoot to the top of ALL suggestions.
I will take this moment though to say it is not Waze’s mission to replace the drivers innate responsibility for driving to road conditions/road rules. The driver is always responsible for safe driving habits. Waze is just a tool to supplement the drivers role to drive safely in all conditions. The omission of an audible alert provided by Waze does not necessarily make a driver an unsafe driver.
I hope this helps understand how as a volunteer editor we are able to help you via this forum.