> Many people still use Waze for getting live traffic updates on a roadtrip (object on road, police speed trap ahead).

Once I showed my father-in-law the "police reported ahead" and "hazard reported ahead" features he was sold. He now demands Waze on every road trip and he's not especially tech-savvy. Google doesn't supply this same data.

Not true, I receive the very same updates (object on the road, speed trap, disable vehicle etc.) on Google Maps app on Android all the time.

These alerts on Maps is sporadic for me for some reason.

I definitely get those alerts on Google maps. AFAIK it literally is the same data, the reporting system is already shared between the two apps

I can confirm that it is 100% not the case on iOS. There is not a way to report these things on the CarPlay app at all, and only very occasionally will there be a "speed trap" alert on Google Maps.

That's exclusively a "not implemented in CarPlay" thing, the feature is very obviously supported in iOS; it even has its own "bubble" in the main UX while navigating.

This seems to have been added in 2019: https://www.macobserver.com/tips/quick-tip/google-maps-repor...

Does CarPlay even offer UX to allow that? It looks like Apple might support it, although the directions aren't very thorough: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/report-traffic-incide...

In Waze + CarPlay you can definitely report events/issues directly from the mainscreen, in the bottom right.

Wait what?!? You get an audible "police ahead" alert? I'll have to review my settings if that's correct.

It's crowdsourced, so it depends on another Waze user having spotted them and put a report in the app, so the usefulness his highly dependent on how many other Waze users are in the area.

I've never received this alerts in Google Maps on iOS - I use it extensively around a major metropolitan area.

Why not though? Is there a point to having two maps apps run by two different teams?