Did Waze Simply Detect This Crash Earlier than It Occurred? | Carscoops
The Waze app seemingly alerted the motive force to a crash mere seconds earlier than a pickup rear-ended a FedEx truck
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by Brad Anderson
Waze is arguably the very best navigation app that’s at present accessible and as this video exhibits, it has the flexibility to detect an accident earlier than it occurs. Or can it?
This intriguing dashcam video was lately shared to Reddit and captures the second a collision occurred between a white pickup truck and a FedEx truck. What’s uncommon is that Waze being utilized by the cammer seems to detect the crash earlier than it occurs.
Within the video, the white pickup truck may be seen pulling in behind the FedEx truck and instantly in entrance of the cammer. The pickup driver retains his flip sign on and appears to have been trying to become the center lane. Moments later, Waze may be heard warning the cammer that there’s a “crash reported forward.” Lower than a second later, the truck slams into the rear of the FedEx truck.
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The driving force of the pickup was in no temper to tug over and change particulars with the FedEx driver and earlier than lengthy, adjustments into the left-hand lane and makes a run for it.
Now, did Waze truly predict this crash? As a lot as we’d like to say it did, that’s not the case.
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Writing within the Reddit feedback of the put up, the cammer reveals that there was one other accident “simply barely additional up the street” that Waze was responding to. It was only a coincidence that the warning got here at nearly the precise second that this separate accident occurred.