Google Now will alert you for traffic incident along your drive

News by:  Hamad Shaikh 26th March 2014

You know the feeling. You’re just miles from home when all of a sudden you see brake lights ahead, a sure sign of an incident on the road. Now, you’ll have a better chance of making it around the traffic. With Google Now's latest update, Google Now will alert you for traffic incidents along your drive.If this sounds familiar, it is because Google-owned Waze already does the very same thing. As you can see in the example above, Google Now is actually collecting the information directly from Waze. Whether it is roadwork or an accident, Google Now will alert without you even having to ask.

We can finally say that Google is putting Waze to work exactly how it should be. what do you think?

news source: Google+

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Waze traffic incident reporting to several new countries in Google Maps

News by:  Jeff Cause 11th November 2013

As we all know that Google completed their acquisition of Waze earlier this year (Waze), one of the first benefits users saw was the ability to access incident reports coming in from Waze users. Google announced today via a tweet that they are expanding the service to 46 new countries and territories throughout the world on both the desktop and mobile client.

Unfortunately, due to the space limitations, a list of all the countries was not provided and thus far Google Maps has not provided a list. The original rollout of the feature covered Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Switzerland, UK and the US.

news source: talkandroid.com

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