In the next few days the DGT expects millions of displacements in the Peninsula and that will cause, without a doubt, not only traffic jams, also (and unfortunately) accidents, lanes closures. To this we must add bad weather in certain regions of Spanish geography. It is not strange then that We turn to applications that notify us of all these variableseven of the radars that control the speed.
The problem is that, even if we are alert to the signals of the road, We have lost a change of maximum speed or do not even see the notice on some light signs or in applications.
Waze, for example, is one of the best known and best punctuated applications when planning a trip. Not only for the precision and detail of its maps, but also by the ingredient of “social network”: Users transmit updates (accidents, road cuts) that allow this application to be aware of almost everything that happens.
And one of the things that most worry about users are, together with the jams or problems on the road itself, the presence of radars. And here it is important to make a caveat: radar inhibitors are punishable by law. Its use implies fine and loss of points in the card. While the applications that warn of the presence of a radar enter a gray area (for now) that is subject to different interpretations.
In this section Waze has an option to send an alert about the location of fixed radarsbut also of road cuts and accidents or traffic jams, which is very useful when making trips, especially long displacements and even more on these dates.
The problem is that many users They have detected that the notices, which were previously received without problem, have stopped being issued. This has nothing to do with the disappearance of the radars or the lack of traffic jams, but probably with an update that has changed the configuration we had in the app.
To activate it again, you have to go to adjustments, then to alerts and notices and then to notices. There we will have a screen with more than a dozen options. We select any of them and ask us to activate if we want them to show them on the map and also if we want to receive a warning while driving, very useful not to have to be looking at the mobile and concentrate on the road.
Due to the number of options available (18 in total) it is advisable to activate only those necessary for the section we are going to travel. For example, if we are going to move along a road or highway a weekend, It makes no sense to activate the map chat option or school zones. Otherwise we can be listening to alarms every time and that is a distraction.