Waze integrates with Android Auto

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Google’s Waze navigation app has been integrated with its smart car operating system, Android Auto.

According to Google Play store, Android Auto has more than fivellion users. In addition to Google Maps, drivers will now have access to Waze app.

Waze for Android Auto will mostly offer the same capabilities on the vehicle's dashboard screen just as it offers on smartphone.

Users can give commands to the app to help them navigate to a chosen destination, and Waze navigation app will offer the best routes leveraging crowdsourced information with regard to traffic jams, accidents or closures, reported Recode.net.

"The app enables drivers to report traffic, accidents or broken down vehicles."

Connecting Waze to car dashboard screens that already have Android Auto is expected to make operating system more appealing to drivers. Even though Waze app works on iPhones, it is not currently integrated with Apple CarPlay.

The app also enables drivers to report traffic, accidents or broken down vehicles.

Currently among the features that are not available on the Android Auto app include voice reporting on traffic and hazards, the Waze Speedometer, and map chat.

Waze's product lead for in-car applications Jens Baron was quoted by CNET as saying that additional features will soon be added to Android Auto but the priority was to enable the primary interface work correctly.

Since May, around 5,000 participants have been testing Waze integrated with Android Auto and so far the feedback has been mostly positive, Baron added.