Is this actionable? Seems like noise without purpose, almost like showing off their data haul without there being anything a driver can change to be safer with this additional information.
Plus is this road-usage normalized? A freeway with bumper-to-bumper traffic is going to have more crashes than a country road with a few vehicles an hour, but one crash a day on one Vs. multiple a day on the other could be required to indicate a more dangerous stretch in real-terms.
Wouldn't the thing the driver could do is pay more attention? Like it or not, but driver attention rises and falls along a drive.
Or, take a different route, probably eventually as presented by waze? Presumably they aren't just going to say "hey a lot of people die on this route. LOL good luck"
Maybe? A one second glance could put you in the mindset where you're ready to brake hard, or put some extra distance between you and the car in front, or choose to not search for the next song you want to hear, etc.
Most GPS and Map Apps have audible notices. Mine speaks up if there is debris or an accident ahead and it is not intrusive or wildly distracting.
For as long as these kinds of navigation utilities have been around, it seems like the implementation of non-intrusive or at the very least not-overly-distracting notifications have been figured out by the industry.
I built a demo of this at in a weekend for a hackathon and we even had a team member drive around with live updates during our presentation
Circling the building, the gauge for accident risk spiked as the team member drove past the poorly marked entrance to the parking garage of the building we were sitting in.
I'd say getting alerts about things like that would be fairly useful because most people don't drive at "maximum safety" all the time.
You can get people to slow down at least somewhat closer to the speed limit, get more attentive, etc. in hotspots for accidents.
Of course, that might just end up shifting the hotspots in some cases, but more often than not I imagine you'd find an environmental aspect to hotspots, like our poorly marker garage, or areas where sunlight can be blinding during commute hours.
Absolutely. Slow down, give more room, don't look at the directions, double-check your mirrors, etc. Nobody is on full alert for all of a 3 hour drive - but they certainly can be for a dozen 2-minute stretches where people often get into accidents.
Plus is this road-usage normalized? A freeway with bumper-to-bumper traffic is going to have more crashes than a country road with a few vehicles an hour, but one crash a day on one Vs. multiple a day on the other could be required to indicate a more dangerous stretch in real-terms.