Bad app
Terrible app. Shows extreme braking but I have never spilled a drop while driving. This is a new version but no better than the original which counted riding on a cruise ship as driving.
Love the new look
I love the new look to the app! The setup was incredibly easy, and I really appreciate being able to see my entire family and the discount all in one place!
Great Update
The recent App update is fantastic! The new version is very nice!
App upgrade is amazing!
The new and improved DriveTrend app is so much cleaner and easy to use!
Unclear and Unreasonable grading system
I drive for UPS, and have a monitor in my truck for speeding and hard breaking, and a camera to detect if I’m driving while distracted. I can drive all day long without any incidents being reported by the monitoring systems in my own truck, but DriveTrend will say I had multiple hard breaks and instances of distracted driving. Before the most recent update, I was rated a five star driver. Since the update, I’m currently considered in the bottom 10% of drivers. It’s such a stark contrast with how the app used to grade my driving, and with my own monitoring systems that I believe they’re intentionally falsifying and dragging down grades to give shallower discounts.
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Great app!
I love this driving app
Much Improved
I’m really enjoying this new version of the app so far. Much improved interface and was very easy to download and get started.
Why
Just lost all my progress, all my trips, & miles! After they updated this app
Phone usage
You get dinged on phone usage even when your a passenger and make sure to let the app know you weren’t driving. It also doesn’t care if you’re only using maps. So regardless of whether you’re driving, you will get dinged on phone usage if your phone is on for any reason in the car.
Speed does not seem accurate
I just started having to use this app, and it is NOT accurately tracking my speed. Having to use an app to track my driving is so Big Brother anyway, and I hate this whole idea. Two stars only because routes seem accurate and braking seems accurate, but speed is NOT accurate.
Decent, but has major improvement opportunities
Figured I’d do my due diligence and leave a pretty honest review. This app works great, except for a few areas.
First, it does a pretty decent job of tracking exactly what you’re doing on your drives. The map data isn’t entirely too accurate, despite leaving multiple reports on the app. For example, I-465 in Indianapolis switched from a 55 mph zone to a 65 mph zone about 6 months ago. It still states that it’s 55 mph and I get dinged on it about once every 30 seconds or so. It also says I-69 in Bloomington is a 55 mph zone. It never has been 55 mph and there’s no signs to indicate that it is 55 mph (it’s really 65 mph).
Secondly, the Hard Braking detection is very wack. Every time I approach a green light that turns yellow (and I have to hit the brakes), it always dings me for at least three of four Hard Brake incidents.
Third, the live speed isn’t always accurate. I live in a place where there’s always an officer camping on the side of the road. I know to never even touch the speed limit… however, it will say I go 50 in a 45 zone.
Overall, the app is pretty solid and does a good job with giving you decent information about your driving habits. The flaws of the app really make it difficult to work with or even trust the information is accurate when giving you a driving score. 2 stars seems low, and 3 stars seems high - so I guess I’ll give them the benefit of it all so someone on the marketing team can be “happy.”
First, it does a pretty decent job of tracking exactly what you’re doing on your drives. The map data isn’t entirely too accurate, despite leaving multiple reports on the app. For example, I-465 in Indianapolis switched from a 55 mph zone to a 65 mph zone about 6 months ago. It still states that it’s 55 mph and I get dinged on it about once every 30 seconds or so. It also says I-69 in Bloomington is a 55 mph zone. It never has been 55 mph and there’s no signs to indicate that it is 55 mph (it’s really 65 mph).
Secondly, the Hard Braking detection is very wack. Every time I approach a green light that turns yellow (and I have to hit the brakes), it always dings me for at least three of four Hard Brake incidents.
Third, the live speed isn’t always accurate. I live in a place where there’s always an officer camping on the side of the road. I know to never even touch the speed limit… however, it will say I go 50 in a 45 zone.
Overall, the app is pretty solid and does a good job with giving you decent information about your driving habits. The flaws of the app really make it difficult to work with or even trust the information is accurate when giving you a driving score. 2 stars seems low, and 3 stars seems high - so I guess I’ll give them the benefit of it all so someone on the marketing team can be “happy.”
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Easy
The app is easy to use and download. I’ve had it for tens of thousands of miles. No issues.
Great Intention, But Highly Flawed, Heavy Handed and Inaccurate
I first would like to acknowledge that I believe after using this app, I have become a safer driver. Knowing the app is tracking me, I stay to the speed limits and never touch my phone, as even changing a song or taking a call register as phone usage while driving. However, my main complaint, which I believe is a HUGE flaw in this app, is that when I am a passenger, if I do not remember right away to go into the app and select a drive and choose the ignore this trip option, it will automatically be locked down and assigned to me. This is insane!! You are actually being graded and tracked by the app automatically as a driver anytime you are in a moving vehicle! When I first had the app, I had the ability to confirm that a drive was me in the driver seat. Or I could ignore the trip if I was the rider. Something changed a couple months ago though, I assume through an update, and now ALL drives are automatically assigned as me being the driver. There is a very short window of time that you have to change those drives in the app to the ignore drive option. If you don’t do that within a couple days, the app assigns the drive to you. So for better or worse, I’m seeing all kinds of drives in here credited to me. Which I think is absolutely ridiculous and obviously highly inaccurate and inappropriate. Supposedly regardless of the scoring I will save at least 10% on my car insurance. But I despise the idea that my insurance company is collecting and assigning inaccurate information on me. To be honest, while I initially saw the app to be beneficial, this heavy handed automatic assignment is encouraging me to delete the app and not use it. As this confirms the fears I had before putting the app on my phone in the first place.
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App
If you can opt out of using this app. It discriminates against night night shift workers. It also does not let me confirm that all the trips I’ve taken have been me driving. Not to mention your scores don’t even add up correctly.
Nighttime driving
Overall I think it does a fine job tracking my drives. However, I work second shift, so I dislike I get a 0 for nighttime driving. I can’t help it bro it’s when I work lol
Too many issues
This app is difficult to navigate and needs to be more adaptable to user preference. I have 3 notifications showing on my app icon, but when I actually go into the app, there are no notifications. The app won't record my husband's drives to the point that he is getting messages about losing the discount, all due to the app issues. I hate that it auto confirms trips if I have been on that route before. My husband and I drive the same roads and alternate driving. If I forget to "ignore" the trips, then his drives are affecting my scores.
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Big savings on our auto insurance
This app is saving my family over $700 per year. My Agent helped us set it up on our smart phones. Now the app just runs in the background automatically. Thanks Alex Alicea @ Farm Bureau for helping us get this discount!
Kicked me off after two days.
Installed it and seemed to work fine for two days. Got in my truck and it wanted me to log in again, but all credentials were invalid and no recovery email ever came. Even tried just re-registering with no success. Zero stars.
Extremely Inaccurate
I have this app so that I can get a discount on the insurance, but it’s incredibly inaccurate and can’t distinguish between driving on roads vs being on a train or on a boat in the middle of the ocean. I got back from vacation and have several speeding, hard breaking, etc notes for when I’m on trains or on the Cruise. They should really update the system to reflect railway systems and other forms of transportation. The train I will give leeway for, but when your in the middle of the ocean!
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Worth It!
The application is simple to use and provides a guaranteed 10% discount. It is NOT designed to be punitive, only to make one a safer driver by knowing how they perform as a driver. I have found it to have fewer requirements and takes less attention than other applications by other insurers.
