Driveology®

We are using this app for past 2-3 weeks and has been a great experience to slow us down more and generally be more aware of phone usage while driving.

Easy to understand and user friendly. Works great!

For the most part it is pretty good. it gives you the opportunity to say whether you are a passenger or a driver. However, it will say that there was a speeding event, a distraction event, or braking event but cannot tell you when or where and the app will say that the event happened for 0 seconds and 0 minutes. For an app that is supposed to be giving me a discount for how good I drive, it sure feels like somebody has their thumb on the scale.

I was checking my trips in Driveology again today and got totally disgusted about getting another “hard braking “ incident in the Driveology app, so I decided it was time to write a review on a public site, so maybe someone would take notice and finally make some changes. Here is a perfect example of unrealistic criteria. I was coming up to an intersection with a green light, but it changed to yellow and I knew I would not make it through the intersection so I stopped. Driveology gives me a gig for “hard braking “ saying 0.3 g’s in 0.9 seconds.  First off why in the world do they sometimes show it in g’s per second. So I put it through a calculator and basically it was 6mph in just under a second (0.9 seconds to be exact). That really doesn’t feel like something that deserves a one star rating for braking , a two star rating for the trip, and dropping my 2 week score from 100 to 95. Driveology also doesn’t take into consideration what speed you’re going. I’ve gotten a “hard braking incident” when I was going under 15 mph in a parking lot (probably closer to 10 mph). When someone pulls a bad driving maneuver in front of you and you avoid a collision you should get rewarded!! Driveology appears to have a criteria of “hard braking ” for 4-5 mph/second and “severe braking “ for 6 mph/second…that is a horrific criteria. In addition, it’s clear that Driveology considers any “hard braking “ incident a result of tailgating. When you slow down quickly because the stoplight changed you shouldn’t be getting a demerit for stopping at the light versus thinking about going through the intersection so you don’t get a gig on Driveology. Definitely not eliciting the correct driving habits with the current criteria!! Besides the fact the criteria is way too harsh. So, now about the driver/passenger options…there are only three…driver, driver (passenger used phone), and not driving-passenger. I have repeatedly provided feedback to Driveology when asked and this is a big one that they continue to ignore. We should be able to switch the trip to anyone in our Group. (When the tag can pick up more than one driver linked to a tag it doesn’t know what to do so it just swaps between drivers. ) On one such occurrence I switched the trip to Not Driving-Passenger option, but it did not fix the demerits for “distracted driving “. That’s a bad bug!! I NEVER use my phone when driving, but now the app incorrectly thinks so! Also, Driveology is calculating my Farm Bureau auto in

After the initial learning phase of what the Driveology app is monitoring in my driving I’ve now put it in the back-seat of my mind. Having reached the length of usage when I was delivered a significant price reduction to my car insurance rate, I now know first hand that our good driving is paying off in an awesome way. There is also a bit of competition between me and my spouse for who has the best running score on the app.

I totally agree with what Baconcrew said. I drive mostly highway and people drive like idiots and cut me off frequently which causes me to react. If I set my cruise and not move with the traffic I have multiple times been tailgated dangerously close, break checked, flipped off, passed on the shoulder, yelled at (yes I was in the right lane). I also don’t always see a posted speed limit and move with the traffic - I get dinged. Leaving the highway and going down short exit ramps get me every day as they don’t like the too fast in the decreased speed. Don’t press play on a recorded podcast while stopped at a train or answer a phone or even make one. I am more stressed out watching all of these things. I am going to ignore this app, drive safely like I used to and be happy with my 10%.

It's nice you get discounts but if there's more then one person connected to it and their on their phone it's doesn't know if it's the driver or not so you can be passenger, on your phone and your score goes down.

Called distraction when u are sitting your car idling in a parking lot checking your email. This needs to be fixed.

Pretty dang good

It’s a nice app to save some money on insurance but the braking needs to be adjusted to be less sensitive. If you get cut off or even have to break slightly harder than normal it gives you a 1 star