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Waze Rolls Out Major Update with New AI, Personalized Navigation, and Motorcycle Mode

Waze, Google's popular navigation app, receives a significant update, adding several new AI features including personalized route suggestions that learn from user behavior and a dedicated mode for motorcyclists.

Waze, a Google navigation application, announced a major update, incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance several key features. This aims to provide a smarter and more personalized travel experience, reflecting Google's direction of integrating its flagship AI, Gemini, into various products.

The most prominent feature is "Personalized Navigation," which learns and remembers each user's driving behavior to suggest the most suitable routes. For example, if a user frequently chooses highways over city roads, the system will prioritize those routes. This feature is now available worldwide on both Android and iOS, and users can opt out if they prefer.

Additionally, Waze introduced "Motorcycle Mode," a dedicated mode for motorcycles that uses AI to help calculate shortcuts and more accurately estimate Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for two-wheelers. It also provides specific hazard alerts such as potholes, speed bumps, or narrow bridges. However, initially, this mode will be available in 7 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines.

Other improved features include "Conversational Reporting," a natural voice-based traffic reporting system that was already present but has been upgraded to allow users to suggest map corrections vocally, such as reporting road closures or incorrect addresses. There's also "Less Chatty Mode," which reduces and shortens voice notifications while still providing crucial alerts like turns or hazards. Both of these latter features are also now globally available.