Just allow users to report the location of Speed Limit signs. This would fit in easily with the current Reports function/icon.
This would also address the road construction issue. And if you add an alert feature that compares the nearby speed limit signs to your current vehicle speed, include a setting to tweak when the alert pops up (0, +5mph, +10mph over limit).
Ken
If you mean, treat speed limit signs like a variety of speed camera, I can see how that might work without diverting AMs and map editors. It wouldn’t say anything between (reported) signs, but it wouldn’t be a bad compromise. I couldn’t tell you what kind of load it might put on the server database, though, as speed limit signs far outnumber speed cameras.
I don’t think there is a good solution to this. Basically, I’m always aware of the posted limit on the road I’m on (unless if it’s a city road wo/ a posted limit in a city I don’t travel through often - Oak Ridge, I’m talking to you).
Basically, it’s a nice feature that, I’m willing to bet, 90% of Wazers would disable. I would disable it.
Secondly, there is no way to really keep tabs on speed limit data. Sure, you can import it, but that probably has at least some errors, if not many. Why add even more errors to Waze :oops: ?
Or leave it to the AM’s - but, I can’t tell what a posted limit is from GPS tracks, average speed (if I had access), or aerials. Do you expect me (and other AM’s) to drive on every inch of road in Southeastern TN (or AM area) just to see if there might be a speed limit sign on a certain stretch of road? (Forgive me if there is a better way to find speed limit data.)
There’s no sensible, smart way to implement it. And as others have said, there’s no real gain from it, except headache.
There really is no gain from adding this, and a long list of downsides, chief amongst them the liability exposure and additional work needed to maintain that data. Get your speed limit information from where your attention should be, the road.
Amen
And get your information about dangers from there, too? Restricted turns? Watch the signs! Traffic jams? Keep a look ahead! …seriously?
I could do my daily commute completely without the assistance of waze. But it’s meant to maker things easier for you. I never drove myself in the US, so I’m not sure what it looks like over there. Here in Europe we have roads where speed limits vary a lot. Outside of cities Germany has a general speed limit of 100km/h (~60mph). But these streets could also be limited to any lower value. Furthermore streets with two lanes per direction or where lanes have constructional separations, the limit is 130km/h (~80mph). In cities the general limit is 50km/h (~30mph) except for multilane roads or seprated lanes where it can be up to 70km/h (~45mph). On highways there’s no general limit. However there are many sections which are limited. We also have dynamic limits, which are set automatically or manually when traffic increases, or visibility decreases. Sometimes with individual limits for each lane. On 10 miles of highway the speed limit may vary from 60km/h (~40mph) (road construction) to “whatever your car can do”. But few hours later the maximum limit could be only boring 120km/h (~75mph).
If waze offered a feature to inform you about the current speed limit, I’m convinced that over here many wazer would use this feature. I definitely would!
Everyone knows, that waze doesn’t offer any official information. When you drive too fast because waze told you so and you get caught, it’s still your own fault, just like it’s your own fault when you take a disallowed turn or go the wrong way in a oneway street. Waze is an assistant, not an autopilot or a controller you must obey in any situation. I guess this is clear to all of us.
Gordonski
Nice hyperbole, except there’s a difference, those are things you cannot see “from a distance” that AFFECT ROUTING. Speed limits are not.
Thank you for listing seven reasons why this is a bad idea and effectively impossible to implement without giving wrong information, let alone actually keep the information current.
So why add something with the appearance of official information, that WILL BE WRONG? Bad information is useless to the driver, is just noise and will be ignored as demonstrated by EVERY navigation device/app that has added speed data.
Then I wonder, why waze collects speed information and calculates average speeds for roads, when they are not needed IN ANY WAY? (Hooray for caps :roll: )
Just because you don’t want speed information it doesn’t mean that they must be useless for anybody else on the planet.
As suggested before, it would be possible to implement a toggle in the settings menu to enable and disable speed information, for those who obviously don’t give a 
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If this is such a crappy, useless, disturbing feature, then why does every navigation software I have seen so far offer it? And why can’t you just accept that some people actually do use this feature because they do think it’s useful?
Nothing on waze has official appearance, we all know it’s purely user driven. Why does that make any bit of information wrong in your eyes? Why on earth do use waze, when you consider all user-provided data to be wrong?
That’s all i have to say about that,
Gordonski
Average speeds are realistic. Speed limits are theoretical.
You can have two roads with the same speed limit. One is lightly traveled, smooth, and straight with limited to no merges. The average speed may be well above the posted limit.
The other may be in an urban area, with lots of volume, rough road surfaces, many on and off ramps with not much room to merge. The average speed may be well BELOW the posted limit.
The average speed is what is important for routing.
Maybe it is a regional thing, but most everywhere in the US the speed limits are set according to political whim and not set by road engineers. And I would say the vast majority of the population ignores the speed limit on all but the smallest of local roads.
Just a quick clarification - my interest in allowing wazers to report speed limit signs was to help with highways where speed limits vary. A few years ago I got a ticket doing ~80 mph on a highway that is mostly 70 mph but occasionally drops down to 65 mph due to small towns. It was at night and I had just picked up a hamburger and must have missed the 65 mph sign. It would have been nice to glance down at Waze and see that 65 mph sign on my iPhone, or better yet, see that 65 mph sign blinking red because I exceeded my +10 mph limit I had set.
Speed Limit signs don’t change often so once a Wazer posted its location, very little effort is required to maintain them. Obviously, Wazers should have the option to turn off the speed limits mapping layer like you can do with traffic, Wazer locations, etc.
Ken
For what it’s worth…I have a Garmin GPS running all the time and use waze for routing. The Garmin tells me the speed limits.
When I see a police patrol, I quickly check the Garmin to confirm my speed limit in case I missed the last sign. Yeah, it would be nice if the Waze software included this. It seems that the thought of this causes a lot of resentment among the old hands here, so I’ll keep using the Garmin for now…and the Waze, too…
So when you get pulled over for speeding, good luck convincing the police officer that you were following the speed limit on your Garmin and not the signs posted on the road 
It’s not resentment, it’s resistance to the cold hard realization that it will fall on the community editors to maintain something that adds zero benefit to Waze’s primary focus of traffic avoidance. The data will be wrong the day it’s imported from whatever source, and will be a Sisyphean task to keep it up to date, all so the driver doesn’t have to actually look anywhere but the bumper of the car in front of them.
Is it so much to ask of people to actually be aware of their surroundings? To actually do the “road, instruments, road, mirrors, road” sequence they’re supposed to do, instead of going down the road in the passing lane with their turn signal on.
Well said. If you need to look at a screen to know what speed you should be doing because you were eating a burger or texting, and then bitch when you get a ticket, then for the love of God stay off the roads. I don’t need my insurance premiums going up or a member of my family killed because Waze added another feature for people to mess about with their phones with because some nob wanted to check the speed limit instead of being aware and driving! /rant
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OK…I’m outta here. If you think I’m that stupid, I won’t waste my time here.
I understand speed limits data may be missing or wrong.
I also agree we don’t’ need drivers to be distracted looking at speed limits.
My solution is “better than nothing” just beep loud when my speed exceedes known speed limit by a selectable threshold.
I don’t even need to see the limit on screen, if this is the problem.
Just want to have the opportunity to be warned loud if I am too much over the limit, so I can slow down ad avoid risking to loose my driving licence!
Believe me, you will switch that darn beep off in no time.
+100 I don’t want no stinking beep. Maybe it’s proprietary or copyrighted but I like the way my old Tom Tom did it, the color behind the the speed changed from black to red if you were exceeding what they thought the posted speed limit was.
But cruising the interstate in Utah at the speed limit will get you run over much of the time. So a constant beeping while just trying to move safely with the flow of traffic would greatly increase my cell phone costs as I’d end up throwing it out the window every time I drove on the Freeway.
If you are polite and courteous it can indeed result in the officer deciding to let you off with a warning when you explain that you had missed the last sign and according to the Garmin you thought you were within the limits. It’s not a guarantee, but I’ve gotten out of many tickets by pulling over as soon as I realized the cop was moving and being polite and courteous and acknowledging that I understand why they pulled me over. Giving him a reason why you were so confused about the speed limit just helps him decide to be nice, if he’s in the mood for it. And with Waze running you could even make a point of making a report of an incorrect speed limit with him right there watching you do it. If he’s truly trying to reduce speeding and not just generating revenue then he’ll appreciate you proactively taking a step to help others know the speed limits. You can even ask him where the current limit starts. Then when he walks away hit the speed trap warning as well just to further help your fellow wazers. 