Map applications have become essential for many drivers, especially those used to taking trips. One of the most popular is Waze, one of the best alternatives to existing Google Maps, which stands out for the community of drivers it has managed to create. This app serves as a guide to reach the desired destination using the best routes, but it also offers many other functions. From informing about the best times to start the journey to all the available real-time information about traffic accidents and other warnings about the state of the road. And among its latest features are blackhead alerts.
The General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) establishes that black spots are certain segments of the road in which there is a high level of danger and in which a high number of accidents occur each year. These key places usually have poor or poor visibility as common characteristics, which prevents seeing other road users, or have sharp curves, which complicate maneuvers and compromise safety. With the new Waze feature, drivers will be alerted to these black spots.
This novelty that Waze incorporates into its application is called accident history alerts, and its objective is none other than to warn drivers who use this application about dangerous points along the way. To do this, they use a combination of the characteristics of that section of the road in question and also the historical data they have.
There is no doubt that this is a great help for drivers. Since, by receiving the alert of these most dangerous places in sufficient time, they can have enough reaction space to carry out more preventive driving and sharpen their levels of attention.
In the application itself, the user is shown a progress bar that begins to advance when the user accesses the section considered a black point. And it is completed in real time at the same time as the driver crosses it and until it reaches its end. A comfortable, simple and accessible way for anyone to increase safety while driving.
However, those who are worried about starting to receive a barrage of alerts of this style should know that this feature will not apply to the roads they normally drive on. Precisely, with the aim of avoiding overinformation. Instead, they will be displayed on other less traveled roads.
