Braking Dings
I have been very satisfied with the Driveology App. My dings have mostly been for braking hard. Each time I have been dinged the braking was someone pulling out in front of me, or almost hitting a dog who ran out in the road. It certainly does keep me more aware, which is a good thing. Best of all it has saved me $$ on my premium.
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not bad
pretty chill, saves me money
The braking is a joke
The braking feature is a joke. It would rather have you run a red light than stop for it. I feel like my driving is worse because I have to worry about the braking.
Easy to navigate
Easy to figure out how to navigate. Straight forward what you need out of the app.
It’s ok
I like what it accomplishes 1 ) make us better drivers
2) reward us for being so.
What I don’t like
It uses the wrong person as driver
It dings me for reading my phone sitting in a parking lot.not driving
It dings me for not running a red light on short yellows.
2) reward us for being so.
What I don’t like
It uses the wrong person as driver
It dings me for reading my phone sitting in a parking lot.not driving
It dings me for not running a red light on short yellows.
Pretty Good App
The app has been good in many ways. It has kept me aware of speed limits and I’ve completely stopped messing with my phone while driving. I don’t understand the “braking” thing. I keep getting dinged when I go over the speed bumps on our neighborhood road. That drives me crazy. The speed limit thing does not and probably cannot take into consideration the flow of traffic. I can just hear drivers behind me on roads posted at 25 mph!
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No phone!
This app definitely makes me avoid using my phone while driving!
Good for me!
I have been much more aware I think I am a better driver because of it!
Not Ready for the Big Leagues
This app is not calibrated well enough to reliably gauge the safety of a driver. The braking metric does not account for hills or highway speeds which can lead to increased events or otherwise discourage safe drivers from taking appropriate action. The braking metric is stated to trigger events over 1/3 G and yet an event was recently triggered for a stop that figures out to be 1/4 G, below the threshold. The are frequent errors in connecting to the correct driver when both people are in the vehicle or occasionally to any device at all, which somehow results in a decrease in distraction score. In two plus months I don’t have a single actual distraction event and yet my distraction score has gone down on drives where the phone literally never even left my pocket. Overall this product is not ready for the big leagues and needs more time in development before using it to determine how safe a driver is.
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Good app
Pretty accurate
Driveolgy
You make it very hard to ? Something that happens while you are driving.
Breaking
The app is very good at helping you learn to drive safely. I believe the hard breaking is too severe.
Helps evaluate my driving
This App has helped me see my lead foot at times and be more aware of keeping my driving within the specific miles per hour.
Fix the braking scoring
Great app. I do drive more cautiously with the app. However, the braking score is over sensitive. Stopping quickly, not hard, for a yellow light is a one star for the whole trip. Legitimate defensive braking is a ding on your score. Defensive braking is a common event, especially people pulling out of a side street or turning right on a red light.
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Hard Braking Threshold Too Harsh
I have gotten at least 3 hard braking alerts already. Each time was a yellow light turning to red. I drive the speed limit. In our area, though, lights turning quickly. The alternative to “hard braking” is to run a red light, which I will not do.
The hard braking threshold is too tight and should be adjusted!
The hard braking threshold is too tight and should be adjusted!
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Overall good, poor at breaking
Overall pleased with the app but my driving score is being affected by the ridiculously sensitive braking function. I drive down a hill every day to work and if the light at the bottom turns red I get a fail on braking because I'm slowing down on a hill. The sensor thinks the braking is harder than it is. Braking is a strange metric to measure anyway. I slam on my brakes to avoid an accident and get dinged? Makes no sense.
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LM
The app does not work. If I'm a passenger in the vehicle assigned to me, I can't touch my phone or it grades me as if I was driving & using my phone. First I was told to get in after my husband & his blue tooth would connect. Now I'm told I need to shut off my blue tooth. We are late 60's, my husband drives 90% of the time. It grades me poorly cause I do use my phone all the time when I'm a PASSENGER!!!
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Great tool!
We have loved this tool. It keeps us more focused on our driving. The only negative – and the only reason I only gave four stars – is because sometimes it puts the wrong person as the driver. The only way we have found, if two people are in the car, is for the passenger to turn off the Bluetooth and not have Driveology® running in the background. If we both have Driveology® up, and Bluetooth turned on, it often chooses the wrong person as the driver. We can change and say we were the passenger, but we can’t change it to say the other person was the driver.
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Fix the breaking algorithm
I like a lot about this app, but I agree on the hard breaking complaints. I don’t follow too close, I don’t use my phone while driving, I’m not a distracted driver, but I check and see hard breaking. It’s not. For instance we have highway that has a 55mph speed limit and stop lights. If I’m going 55 and it turns yellow, I slow to a stop and every time I get dinged and it says I may be distracted. First, that’s a legit stop and distance and second, just because a braked doesn’t mean I’m distracted. And on top of that, the amount of points it dings you makes no sense. I have 93% after many miles and months and one hard brake takes me down to 82%. It what statistical universe does that work out.
One other thing. When I ride with my wife, I navigate. I’m always dinged fit distractions for using my phone. It’s her car. I never synched her car, her driveology to my phone. I don’t drive her car, but it can’t figure it out.
One other thing. When I ride with my wife, I navigate. I’m always dinged fit distractions for using my phone. It’s her car. I never synched her car, her driveology to my phone. I don’t drive her car, but it can’t figure it out.
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Overall good
I live very in the woods and have had wildlife jumped right out and it dinged me for the braking. Too bad otherwise good
