Waze pioneered the idea of putting a lightweight social layer of reporting traffic and cops on a maps app. That made it super popular around the world — so much so that Google up and bought it in 2013. Since then, Waze features have crept their way into Google Maps from time to time, and vice versa. Today’s news is the second thing: there will now be a Google Assistant button (and “Hey Google” hotwording) on Waze now.
Google put the Assistant right into Google Maps earlier this year — and it might have served as a bit of a Trojan horse to get iPhone users more used to using Google’s AI instead of Siri. For Waze, Google is keeping the feature Android-only for now. It’s also only launching in the US for English-speakers — and…
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