Waze now lets you report hazards out loud [Video]

Waze just made it easier for drivers to report incidents en route, with a new tool that lets you flag hazards with your voice.

Announced in a blog post by the Google-owned app on Thursday, Waze’s new “Conversational Reporting” feature uses the company’s AI model Gemini to allow you to vocally report things like traffic jams, construction, and random junk finding itself in the road.

All you have to do is tap the app’s reporting button and speak conversationally about the incident, and Gemini will instantly process this into a report. Whether you scream those details in a rage is up to you.

According to Waze, the app could ask you follow up questions about the report, asking you to provide more details — say, if a mattress is blocking traffic, you might want to specify. You can see how it functions in Waze’s ad campaign video below, in which a cab driver reports construction using …