Ride with Cupid on the Waze app
The Waze app is bringing love to the road with a Cupid character and a heart-covered "Lovewagon" icon for a limited Valentine's Day driving experience.
Starting Wednesday and throughout February, you can switch up your settings to activate a Valentine's Day experience that comes with three options: your spoken driving directions can be delivered in the voice of "Cupid" — that is, Waze's own spin on the mythological figure; your car icon can become Waze's Lovewagon; and your public-facing map icon can be a purple heart-face with a bow-and-arrow strapped on.
To set up the Valentine's Day experience, click "My Waze" on the app and look for the Cupid button to activate.
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Once you're set up with your temporary icons you'll see it's not all roses and chocolate-covered strawberries with Waze's Cupid. Cupid's got some biting remarks on the subject of love that'll come up during an accident alert or when you arrive at your destination. We'll let you discover the snarky comments peppered throughout your driving directions. Cupid's quips don't come in any languages other than English — not even the god of passion's own native Latin.
Waze has previously offered special driving experiences with other fictional characters like Sesame Street's Big Bird, Elmo, and Cookie Monster.
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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
