WF-EQWUTD
Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires
Waze, a Google-owned directions app, led California drivers into the 2017 Skirball wildfires as they tried to evacuate the area.
- Date it happened
- 2017-12-06
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Waze uses machine learning to predict traffic patterns based on GPS data and other users' reports in order to optimize routes for the primary user.
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