Hi,
My idea is that you could do a “Bonus Point Opportunity” called:
“You haven’t exceeded speed limit [by more than 10%] for X kilometers.”
or
“You haven’t exceeded speed limit [by more than 10%] within a week.”
It can motivate users to respect speed limits -> less accidents.
What do you think? 
Yours,
-Csaba
I actually kinda like that idea! The issue being that waze doesn’t currently have speed limit data!
Wouldn’t be bad, except for one major problem, the map doesn’t know anything about speed limits, only averages over each segment.
Oh, i don’t respect speed limits 
European studies have shown speed is never the primary reason for accidents, and in very few cases a secondary reason. The country with the highest or even no speedlimits (Germany) is the safest to drive in. Don’t be brainwashed by governments who see speeding tickets as a nice source of secondary income 
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As a Biker i can confirm this.
Cool, so I can drive around all corners at 150mph and it won’t cause an accident - thanks for that information.
Please let me know where you get your statistics from about Germany being the safest country, cause it isn’t http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp6/publications/stats_accidents2011.html
not the speed that is usually the problem, it’s either being distracted, inibriated, or inexperienced
:evil: Don’t say that speed kills people, I can hit 150 in my racecar, and zip through traffic just fine, but i have to worry about all the other stupid divers that cut me off
Go ahead, Darwin will like it. And even in this case, it’s not the speeding aspect, it’s the inability to handle a car properly.
Well, Netherlands and Sweden score better in this report.
Well if we’re going to go all Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, that report seems to imply that speed doesn’t matter as well. If you compare Germany to the United States (same accidents per thousand in 2008), Germany has half the deaths per million for the same year.
The reality is driver qualification (higher standard in Germany), freeway/autobahn construction, and miles driven on freeway/autobahn all make a difference in those reports so it’s really difficult to compare like for like.
If only waze knew the speedlimit! And frankly, I don’t want Waze to know the speed limit. Because that might feed the brilliant idea to calculate with that speed, instead of the real average speed. And what if a country changes its speed limit? (as we are about to do next year)
Speedlimits are the first data to go out of date with my regular navigation devices. Those that offer speedlimit-warnings are out of sync in no time.
Comparing deaths in Germany to the United States is like comparing shark attacks in California to North Dakota. Didderent kind of roads, different congestion levels, different kinds of cars, different laws. I have never been on the roads in Germany, but I cannot imagine going 150 with deer jumping out of the ditches and semi trucks weaving in and out like they do in the US. I know there are more Benz and Volvos over there, which are far safer than the Huyndais and kias here.
Sorry, I have to pick myself up from the floor first. This is just TOO funny. I think (and know) there are A LOT more Kias and Hyundais here than in the USA. Those are not the dangerous things…The big SUVs are dangerous. Not for those who are driving it, but for those who are hit by them. Also, deer are not very known for causing dangerous accidents (although there is a lot of road kill in Europe). Most deer just get under the car, not on it. Well, Red deer do, obviously. I think you can safely say congestion. Germany is quite congested, so although the speed limit may be higher, the average speed in the country is much lower. Also, people actually look in the mirrors when changing lanes (which is not common in some countries, like my own).
Mercedes and Volvo are really not the top brands in terms of sales in Germany, as they are quite expensive. I just think that European and Asian cars in general perform better in crashes (and handling, and fuel efficiency). Also, the weight of those cars give you a much better chance of survival.
And more cars are diesel which provide great torque for quick passing.
I enjoy that everyday For example, my Skoda Octavia Diesel gives approx. the same amount of torque as a Ford F150 3.7-liter four-valve Ti-VCT V6. But my car is 1700 lbs. lighter ;-).
Another misconception 8-). Torque does help you overpass, only power does (which, in an internal combustion engine, is a product of the torque and revolutions). Torque at the wheels is about the same between diesel and gasoline cars btw, thanks to wonderful things called transmissions.
Torque is a force. Power is a rate of force; i.e., torque per unit time, or torque times revolutions per unit time.
Greater torque at the driving wheels results in greater acceleration, given the same vehicle mass & tire diameter.
Given two engines, the one capable of greater peak power can always be geared such that it results in greater torque at the wheels; i.e., greater acceleration.
In practice, a lower-power engine with more available gears can approach the performance of a higher-power engine with fewer gears–but with comparable transmissions, using gear ratios suited to the two engines’ power curves, the engine with the greater peak power output will out-accelerate the other.
My Garmin Nuvi posts speed limits on the current road I am on, so I am sure it is possible to implement.
Right, it’s possible. Your Garmin has all of that data already in it. If we wanted Waze to implement speed limits, it’s likely that we would have to add the speed limit manually for every single segment of road.
And then what happens when the speed limit of a particular segment is changed?