AMA Road Reporter app for iPhone and iPad
AMA Road Reporter is a hands-free audio-based traffic and driving-condition reporting app. Before you leave home, it notifies you about issues on your route and offers up several routes to choose from. Once you’re in your vehicle, the app goes in to “drive mode” and provides you with audio updates about conditions as you drive. By using information gathered from multiple sources, including other users, Road Reporter helps you avoid driving issues and gets you to where you’re going safely with informative, real-time audio updates. It’s like having a personal traffic helicopter watching all the highway and city-streets on your route.
Key features include:
* Hands-free real-time audio alerts of unexpected driving issues, including traffic, collisions, construction, and road conditions.
* Active monitoring of your route as you drive to alert you of any driving issues ahead.
* Route Finder that will map out up to three alternative routes to your destination, showing distance and expected traffic travel times.
* Ability to save your commute or frequently travelled routes to receive advanced notification about potential issues before you drive.
* Visual map that displays your route along with traffic speed information, provincial road conditions, and highway cameras.
* Drive Mode to minimize distraction, and provide estimated arrival and trip time.
* Push notifications to advise you of important issues, like road closures or extreme weather forecasts in your selected region(s).
* Ability to contribute traffic flow information that will help other users, all without any user interaction. There are also one-touch options for reporting collisions, construction, or poor driving conditions as well as the ability to provide voice-recorded reports to AMA.
* Coverage across Alberta, with extensive coverage in Calgary and Edmonton to help with daily commutes.
Download the app today and avoid traffic jams and poor driving conditions. Because you’re practically family we ask you to use this app responsibly and follow all driving laws.
Pros and cons of AMA Road Reporter app for iPhone and iPad
AMA Road Reporter app good for
Love the advance notice the app provides before you leave on routes that you travel regularly. The audio alerts while you drive is great - it easily paired with my cars Bluetooth. Can see this becoming a regular part of my commute.
My commute home can vary in time from 10 minutes to 45 minutes depending on traffic. This app is great for letting me know if I need to find an alternative route before I head out or while I’m on my way. One thing I wish this app had was directions so that I don’t have to run 2 apps.
Took QEll to Red Deer yesterday, great comfort knowing the hwy was clear. Thank you AMA!
the voice report pin in the map is very creative. Rather than hearing the pre-recorded traffic audio report. I more prefer to listening to the users voice in this app. that makes me more confident that there is definitely an incident.
I tried to use it on my iPhone 4S, but it crashed every time. I shouldnt have to upgrade my phone in order to use a simple app. Any plans to downgrade it?
Love the app and I have used it consistently to and from work. Love it, love it love it.
The only thing I would suggest is the developer update the app to allow music from your iPhone to continue playing through BlueTooth. As soon as I get a traffic alert through the app, I have to hit play on my Music app as it stops suddenly. This happens a lot. Hope to see that fixed soon, but it is a great, useful app.
Some bad moments
I cannot figure out how to stop the map from zooming to my current location. I move it and it zooms right back. So the only road I can check, is the one I can see out my window with my own eyes. This is not very helpful. Going back to using the website.
Screen jiggles vertically constantly.
Navigating the app eventually causes it to crash.
Obviously there is a problem with the code.
While the traffic and incident icons are displayed, the same as other mapping applications, all information about incidents, and all alerts about upcoming problems on your route are conveyed through voice. Completely useless if you cant hear the details of the incidents or alerts.
But am disappointed. I used the app for the first time today, after reading the tutorial. Its so SLOW! It took several minutes to come up with a second route from Banff to Calgary (I knew highway 1 has construction; I wanted to check the 1A). And I had to turn Drive Mode off entirely, in order to input a destination (I was a passenger). And, how about having a way, short of a phone call, to report slow traffic? Yes, you can do a one touch reporting of construction, poor road conditions or collisions, but how about something for bear jams, traffic volume or even just "its real backed up as far as I can see, and I dont know why"?
Full of bugs. Alerts are too quiet to hear. Always changing screens.
App wont open. Cant give a positive review if you cant use the app.
