Waze now also has AMBER alerts for children in danger
Applications are the most direct way to reach users. And it is that everyone has a smartphone in their pocket and several dozen tools installed to consult social networks, surf the Internet or plan any route. Something that can also be helpful in cases of danger such as those collected by the AMBER alert system An organization in charge of protecting children in danger due to kidnapping or disappearance, which now joins forces with the application Waze to alert drivers and allow that more eyes join the help.
In this way, users of the application Waze can collaborate to help find children who They could have been kidnapped or are at risk All this through a simple message that appears on the screen when the user has stopped for more than ten seconds A sample of information that can be of great help in these situations and that now reaches all drivers automatically
This new feature comes in two aspects On the one hand the AMBER Alert Europe warnings at national displayed to all drivers, provided they stop more than 10 seconds into their journey These alerts display children in imminent danger, having recently been reported missing or abducted. On the other hand, there are the alerts of children in danger whose disappearance has taken place in the last month and their life is at serious risk. In this second case, the alerts that the user of Waze will be able to see are restricted to the place or local area where the last tip of the minor was received Therefore, not everyone will be able to see it, only drivers who are in an area that could be key to help.
These alarms are small information windows that are displayed at the top of the screen Waze during parking. They show a photo of the minor who stars in the alert, his name and other information that are available as the date of disappearance, the place it came from or even the type and license plate of the vehicle in which he might have been abducted. Data that is always possible enlarge by clicking on the link to see all the relative information in the AMBER Alert Europe database , either a national alarm or a local danger
In short, a way to help and continue to improve the community of users of Waze, who no longer only serve the highway and the possible dangers that can be found on the road. This is not the first time that Waze has helped its community, providing data recorded by applications on other occasions to report on the current state of traffic. Neither did AMBER, which reached a similar agreement a few months ago with Facebook in the United States Now both have begun to collaborate in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands, with the intention of expanding until they are able to operate in around twenty European countries.
