Garmin Users Can Now Share Their Cycling Location Through Waze For Extra Safety
The integration works through Garmin’s optional LiveTrack feature.
Igor Bonifacic for Engadget
Waze is partnering with Garmin to make creative use of the company's LiveTrack feature. Now, if you're cyclist, enabling the feature on your Garmin smartwatch or Edge bike computer will make you temporarily appear on Waze as you ride by cars. Drivers will see a notification appear inside of the app, warning them there's one or more cyclists ahead of them on the road. They will also see a moving icon as they approach.
Waze
As a cyclist, LiveTrack is completely optional, and, when enabled, it automatically turns off when you end a ride on your Garmin device. Additionally, Waze says your name, identity and route are never shared. While you could argue this integration offers a solution to a problem that should be addressed from a systemic level, the reality is that plenty of Garmin users already...
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