Google’s big Waze AI update includes a button that makes the app shut up
THE SO WHAT
Gemini-powered Waze features — motorcycle mode, conversational map editing, smarter search — paired with a “shut up” button show the new UX frontier is controllable AI, not just more AI. For product teams, the pattern is clear: give users dials to tune verbosity and autonomy, or they’ll turn the feature off entirely.
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