He won't disclose his specific data source, however I guarantee you it's Waze. It's definitely not Tesla users because, just like TeslaWaze, there's no way for you to report an item.
I’m going on a trip tomorrow so I’ll try this and compare... I need something !!!
Please report back what your thoughts are! I'm sure everyone in this thread would be eager to get a current opinion and comparison.
Please report back what your thoughts are! I'm sure everyone in this thread would be eager to get a current opinion and comparison.
Well that's a huge bummer!
Back in 2016 when I tried it, it worked really well and was getting better with updates and tweaks. I remember reading a post on here from a user that added a speed trap to Waze using their phone and seconds later it showed-up on Radar Alerts in their car browser. May be worth contacting them? Radar Alerts for Tesla Vehicles - FAQ and Technical Support. If the police aren't showing-up, I guess it isn't worth paying for.
Well that's a huge bummer!
Did it show other road hazards or road closings from Waze, like TeslaWaze does?
I'm here!
The alert pop ups will appear when an alert is within the radar cone, and is less than 1 mile away or has an ETA of less than a minute. In order to try to reduce the number of false positives when travelling on highways, when the vehicle speed exceeds 55 mph (88 km/h), the radar cone narrows from 90 degrees (45 degrees to the left and right of the direction of travel) to 45 degrees (22.5 degrees to the left and right of the direction of travel).
I did a good bit of testing to finally arrive at those parameters. Certainly it's not perfect, but for the most part it works pretty well. I also added the ability to dismiss the alert pop-ups one-by-one, which also helps. If you see a false positive pop up, you can just tap on it to dismiss it.
I'll look into adding road hazards and road closings. It would take a bit of work, because of the manner in which everything is geared specifically toward police alerts. It should be possible to do though. I look forward to hearing how your trip went!
In the past few weeks, I've made many updates. A couple of months ago, the map makers stopped working. Google made some changes to their map API that broke them. I updated the app to use Mapbox instead of Google maps, and the markers were working once again.
Not long after that, the latest Tesla firmware totally broke the app, and I ended up completely rewriting it to work with the new browser. Last week, I made more updates to allow the old browser/firmware to work with the new code, so now everyone can benefit from the latest features.
The rewrite allowed me to add some new improvements to the app:
- The indicators on the map to show the direction of travel have been removed, in favor of the addition of the radar cone and circles to the map -- this makes it MUCH easier to tell the direction of travel on the map, and the relative locations of alerts
- When you tap and drag to pan the map, it stops tracking the vehicle, and a recenter button appears; tapping the recenter button will resume tracking the vehicle on the map
- Alerts outside of the warning cone now appear gray
- Alerts on the map now appear the same color as they do on the radar
- Gray - They are outside the radar warning cone
- Green - They are inside the radar warning cone, over 2 mi. (3.2 km) away
- Yellow - They are inside the radar warning cone, less than 2 mi. (3.2 km) but more than 1 mi. (1.6 km) away
- Red - They are inside the radar warning cone, either less than 1 minute away or less than 1 mi. (1.6 km) away; red alerts will cause the screen to flash red and blue
- When warnings are flashing the screen red and blue, they are now dismissable one-by-one; when the last one is dismissed, the screen no longer flashes red and blue
- The app now continues to function properly when coming back to the car, even overnight
- The app will check for updates every 6 hours, and reload if a new version is detected
Geeklad, this thread is for TeslaWaze. Please create a new thread for Radar Alerts and continue your discussions there. Your posts are not appropriate for this thread.
I'm here!
The alert pop ups will appear when an alert is within the radar cone, and is less than 1 mile away or has an ETA of less than a minute. In order to try to reduce the number of false positives when travelling on highways, when the vehicle speed exceeds 55 mph (88 km/h), the radar cone narrows from 90 degrees (45 degrees to the left and right of the direction of travel) to 45 degrees (22.5 degrees to the left and right of the direction of travel).
I did a good bit of testing to finally arrive at those parameters. Certainly it's not perfect, but for the most part it works pretty well. I also added the ability to dismiss the alert pop-ups one-by-one, which also helps. If you see a false positive pop up, you can just tap on it to dismiss it.
I'll look into adding road hazards and road closings. It would take a bit of work, because of the manner in which everything is geared specifically toward police alerts. It should be possible to do though. I look forward to hearing how your trip went!
In the past few weeks, I've made many updates. A couple of months ago, the map makers stopped working. Google made some changes to their map API that broke them. I updated the app to use Mapbox instead of Google maps, and the markers were working once again.
Not long after that, the latest Tesla firmware totally broke the app, and I ended up completely rewriting it to work with the new browser. Last week, I made more updates to allow the old browser/firmware to work with the new code, so now everyone can benefit from the latest features.
The rewrite allowed me to add some new improvements to the app:
- The indicators on the map to show the direction of travel have been removed, in favor of the addition of the radar cone and circles to the map -- this makes it MUCH easier to tell the direction of travel on the map, and the relative locations of alerts
- When you tap and drag to pan the map, it stops tracking the vehicle, and a recenter button appears; tapping the recenter button will resume tracking the vehicle on the map
- Alerts outside of the warning cone now appear gray
- Alerts on the map now appear the same color as they do on the radar
- Gray - They are outside the radar warning cone
- Green - They are inside the radar warning cone, over 2 mi. (3.2 km) away
- Yellow - They are inside the radar warning cone, less than 2 mi. (3.2 km) but more than 1 mi. (1.6 km) away
- Red - They are inside the radar warning cone, either less than 1 minute away or less than 1 mi. (1.6 km) away; red alerts will cause the screen to flash red and blue
- When warnings are flashing the screen red and blue, they are now dismissable one-by-one; when the last one is dismissed, the screen no longer flashes red and blue
- The app now continues to function properly when coming back to the car, even overnight
- The app will check for updates every 6 hours, and reload if a new version is detected
