Waze for Bicycles
I have read several posts about how difficult it is to report moving hazards such as tractors or bikes or strings of bicycles (pelotons). You can't track a hazard that is on its own variable route.
Don't consider Bikers as Hazards, let us be Wazers.
Give us new icons that don't track speed, just location.
Let me change my Icon to a single bike or a pack of bikes. (lots of packs will indicate a peloton) As I travel along, all the Waze users around me would see that there is a slow moving (22mph) pack of bikes on the road. Bikers would love the safety and, bingo, you have tens of thousands new Waze users in a week. Waze wouldn't need to track our times or speed, just post our locations. It would add a large benefit with a low computing load. We bikers already have our Digifit, iMapMyRIDE, TrailGuru and other tailored route calculators that also track our heartrates, calories, etc., but these don't help with safety or our interaction with traffic. There would be no technology overlap so bikers will want to use Waze in conjunction with, not in competition with their other programs. You could even invite street sweepers to use the app with their own icons. This instant advertising with city governments would lower their exposure to accidents.
Adding New Icons with current location but no speed-tracking or route-calculations would increase awareness of non-car traffic and make it safer for all.
How is that for a newbie idea? I really can't put any more colors on my bike jersey to help cars see me better. A Waze dot makes me more visible when I ride and helps me see other bikes when I drive. Thanks for the great app.
Don't consider Bikers as Hazards, let us be Wazers.
Give us new icons that don't track speed, just location.
Let me change my Icon to a single bike or a pack of bikes. (lots of packs will indicate a peloton) As I travel along, all the Waze users around me would see that there is a slow moving (22mph) pack of bikes on the road. Bikers would love the safety and, bingo, you have tens of thousands new Waze users in a week. Waze wouldn't need to track our times or speed, just post our locations. It would add a large benefit with a low computing load. We bikers already have our Digifit, iMapMyRIDE, TrailGuru and other tailored route calculators that also track our heartrates, calories, etc., but these don't help with safety or our interaction with traffic. There would be no technology overlap so bikers will want to use Waze in conjunction with, not in competition with their other programs. You could even invite street sweepers to use the app with their own icons. This instant advertising with city governments would lower their exposure to accidents.
Adding New Icons with current location but no speed-tracking or route-calculations would increase awareness of non-car traffic and make it safer for all.
How is that for a newbie idea? I really can't put any more colors on my bike jersey to help cars see me better. A Waze dot makes me more visible when I ride and helps me see other bikes when I drive. Thanks for the great app.
Re: Waze for Bicycles