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What if the police use Waze though? Last time I used it -and it was many years ago- it was clearly possible to use it to find speeders using it.


Can you explain how? Waze doesn't show your speed to others on the map.


It's been like eight years. I don't recall exactly, but what I recall is that Waze showed me other Waze users on the road, including their positions, and these were updated in something close to real-time, which means one could estimate their speed. I imagine a police officer waiting to "ambush" a speeder they know is coming.


I have never seen anything close to real time updates on Waze, even 10 years ago. Its always very delayed jumps and never seeming to be actual accurate positions.


If a police uses Waze to find me and catch me he can go ahead and just throw me in jail.




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