Discover how Waze, a community-driven navigation app owned by Alphabet, uses real-time user data to optimize routes, avoid traffic, and highlight local amenities.

Have you heard about Waze, the crowd-sourced navigation app? If not, you’re about to, because Google is buying this Israeli company for $1 billion. This deal could give Google a major boost in the ...

A viral video shows a police officer marking a “police ahead” report as “not there,” sparking claims cops can erase alerts.

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Waze has become a must-have app for drivers thanks to the information it provides on traffic, but the Google-owned product is slowly becoming a modern weapon to fight traffic problems for authorities, ...

Google Maps vs. Waze: I've used the two best navigation apps, and there's a clear winner ...

Houstonians know their traffic like Seattleites know their heroin coffee or heaved aquatic animals. In other words, we are used to driving and doing it in a mess of mangled, crushingly slow ...

What's the best map app to navigate Houston's daily onslaught of traffic? For the Houstonians who shared their thoughts with the Chronicle, the No. 1 choice for help when commuting is Google-owned ...

Waze, the navigation assistant on my car’s video screen, warns me. Often. It uses the same calm voice that pilots use when turbulence is about to experienced. Thus, I’m alerted to a car on the side of ...

When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — AAA projects that at least 73 million people will travel by car over the holiday period, nearly 90% of all Thanksgiving travelers and the highest number on record. Many of them will ...

Waze is ending support for older Android versions. Google will no longer update the app on phones, tablets, or other devices running Android 9 Pie or older OS versions. However, the app will continue ...