Gimmick app
In my area there’s some pretty rough roads and this is the second time I’ve had a drive get scrapped because my phone jostling around. The modules are pointless unless you’re learning to drive. However they gauge acceleration needs some serious work too. I’ve been trying to drive better but you might as well get out a give your car a push before hitting the gas. It’s another app on top of the regular state farm one so it’s just more hoops they want you to jump through. Mainly they need to fix whatever system they use for motion detection and it wouldn’t be as bad.
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Critique on app features
This app is limited in allowing the adult driver to explain why some measurable reactions need to be explained. Case in point when the app sensed an abrupt sudden stop. The reason for the stop is due to a driver running a stop sign. Luckily Alejandro was able to avoid the impact. I’m certainly glad at least I have this review venue to provide these details. In my opinion there should be a place after each driving session for comments.
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Horrible App
I’ve finished about 4/5 hours I’m required to drive for this program, while whenever I try to start a drive it is stuck calibrating. So I cannot record my drive time. There’s also no help I’ve found online or StateFarm itself hasn’t been helpful with this issue, im gonna start looking for other insurance as now they have taken off my steer clear discount (since it hasn’t been finished) and now I have to pay an extra 20$ a month for this apps issue.
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Inconvenient & easy to forget about…
You have to press start and stop each drive for it to count (?!) I already have another app that tracks my driving, why can’t these be synced? I forgot to press stop after my drive, and so it didn’t record.
I still have FIVE hour of driving left…. which will take me forever to complete especially if I have to manually start and stop each drive. Hook it up to bluetooth like the other app or this is never getting done
I still have FIVE hour of driving left…. which will take me forever to complete especially if I have to manually start and stop each drive. Hook it up to bluetooth like the other app or this is never getting done
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Harsh Scoring
The app is really easy to use. I did not like how harsh the scoring was. I also have the Drive Safe and Save app where my driving is scored as well. It was strange to see that the apps did not score the same during the same trips. Drive Safe and Safe would score me Great while Steer Clear scored me more harshly. I’m not sure why they are different because they are both StateFarm.
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Alright, but targeted towards teens
The app itself is alright, modules are very easy if you’ve been driving for any period of time, and as others have said, the driving ratings are extremely sensitive. My main issue, as a “risky” 24 year old driver using the app to get a discount, is how targeted the language is towards teens and extremely new drivers. When you’ve been driving for 7 years, it does get kind of annoying to have an app talk down to you, or chide you for braking too hard (I guess it would rather have me rear end someone)
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Not an accurate assessment of driving
My son is using this as requested by the agent. I saw his scores and questioned it. I then installed it on my phone. I got dinged for hard braking today which was nothing more than reversing out of a driveway and was not “hard braking”. The acceleration dings you for “accelerating to quickly”. In normal everyday driving, if I accelerated in a manner that would get a high score then the app should note the possibility to experience road rage against you as accelerating is slow and is not safe if getting up to highway speed. This app is more of a how you should drive in a vacuum and not with traffic.
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Good idea but Impossible to get 100%
As mentioned by everyone else the score system is upper finicky and unfair on curvy roads but I believe it’s impossible to get 100% in every category. I’ve been able to get 100% in two of three categories with a deduction to the third. But I’m convinced it’s impossible to get 100% overall score. I’ve had multiple trips with zero alerts and I get 93% in every category. I feel like this is very misleading by the developers.
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Good but problems
Overall the app is amazing but when you are being asked is it better to be less distracted or more distracted and then the correct answer being not distracted. Even though I know not distracted was correct you should not make a question phrased like that. It is just stupid and unnecessary.
Steer clear is not accurate and too sensitive
Steer clear is extremely sensitive!! Before I did it I read an review that said to get anyway near 100% you had to drive like you were afraid of the pedals and IT WAS RIGHT! I am a good driver and while using and doing the app I have tried to be extra cautious of slow acceleration and slow braking. I braked so perfectly that you couldn’t really feel the car stop. I told my mom and made her come in a drive with me to see how I was driving. She couldn’t believe the scores it was giving me for how well I was driving. Also if your phone moves the tiniest bit, it won’t grade it!! I loss 30 minutes of driving and it wouldn’t score it because my phone moved! It consistently gave me a 50%. I accelerated so slow that cars around me would get annoyed and the app would tell me that I had a rapid acceleration. ARE YOU SERIOUS?!! I only did it so I could get a discount and go on random drives so I can meet the time limit and get done with it as soon as possible. No matter how perfectly you drive you will get a low grade.
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