DrivingBuddy

DrivingBuddy is a FREE mobile app created to help users improve their driving performance and safety by providing an objective, easy and fun way to receive feedback about your driving tendencies. Both positive reinforcement and safety/risk advice are part of the information created and displayed on your smartphone after every trip. Some real-time (while driving) feedback is available, but limited due to the potential to distract drivers. The app is also designed to be engaging and entertaining as well as educational by including game and social features:

• Leaderboard
• Achievements
• Bracket Competition
• Socialization (facebook)
• Leveling

Safe Driving Score: A patent-pending “Safe Driving Score” similar to your Credit Score is computed for each trip and averaged over all trips. Industry experts predict in the near future, insurers and other merchants will use the Safe Driving Score in the same way Credit Scores have been used – for discounts, loyalty programs and other benefits. Many insurers are already considering the Safe Driving Score as another measure of risk for newly insured drivers that’s more direct than using age, sex, location, etc.

Benefits

Parents
• make your son/daughter a better and safer driver, sooner
• take subjectivity out of the process
• know if they are driving dangerously, including texting and calls while driving
• track total hours accurately and automatically, including day/night, road type, etc.
• get lower premiums from insurers using modern “data-driven” risk assessment

Driving Schools & Instructors
• maintain contact with student between lessons more relevant instruction each lesson based on additional data collected when student drives without instructor
• standardization across instructors
• objective data for parents to use during supervised BTW without instructor
• opportunity for additional products and services to improve training
• reduced expenses via insurers who offer fleet discounts using telematics

Students
• easier to track and accumulate hours
• get parents off back
• be confident you’ll pass DMV test
• have fun with achievements, leveling, competition, leaderboard

Seniors
• use objective measures of safety and performance
• self-monitor

The Rest - 80% of us that think we’re above average drivers
• have fun, compete, socialize
• road warriors’ alternative to usage-based insurance
• health and wellness (optional wrist-worn data collection device)

Technical: DrivingBuddy collects and analyzes the industry’s richest set of parameters recorded continuously every second for applications that demand advanced and accurate predictive analytics. The full data set with all peripherals (OBDII, vitals) comprises over 50 variables. Raw data is compressed and wirelessly sent to remote servers for analysis. Server analytics generate hundreds of additional derived data to provide accurate event detection and scoring. The resulting post-analysis feedback is returned almost instantly to the user’s mobile device for interactive viewing. Numerous app screens are provided to give users a broad range of feedback and entertainment.

Automation: The app can operate nearly autonomously if the Optional OBDII interface is used. In addition to adding several important vehicle parameters (RPM, speed, accelerator position, instantaneous gas mileage, etc.) to the collected data, the OBDII interface can be set to auto-launch the DrivingBuddy app when the mobile device is near the vehicle. In addition, because ALL mobile apps that continuously sample GPS and other sensor data cause an accelerated drain on the mobile device’s battery, DrivingBuddy includes an auto-start and auto-stop function as well as an auto-exit of the app to minimize battery drain. ,