Mentor Business by eDriving℠

Kiss your battery life goodbye. Two people in the same car will get two different scores even if the phones are secured together. Missed trips for an entire day. Received two phone calls while driving that weren’t answered. Logged as calls received.

Mentor is only useful if you drive during the day, on well maintained roads, in perfect weather conditions, with no stop lights, and no other vehicles within three miles of you. There have been times where someone pulls out in front of me, and I have hesitated on hitting the brakes because mentor has me trained that hard breaking is bad. It’s better to run that red light, than stop hard if the light turns yellow. Kid runs in front of your car? Better hit them. Swerving to avoid an accident is bad. If Mentor has the speed limit for a road wrong, better follow the Mentor speed rather than the posted speed. Regardless of the danger this poses. Mentor is so out of touch with reality, I wonder how often they are included in the lawsuits for being the cause of accidents… The laws don’t matter, there can be only Mentor!

Using this app only because my company requires it. I would rate this app a zero however the minimum is 1 star. I drive the speed limit, slow down for curves and am a trained defensive driver with over 35 years driving. Never a ticket, never an accident and I pay very close attention to my driving as well as those around yet my score has only gone to 812 once and immediately dropped to below 800 on several occasions. Avoid this app if you can it gives false readings and doesn’t allow for improvement based on your TRUE driving skill set

eMentor forces you to disable features on your phone, like the live voicemail feature, as it will pick it up as a “distraction “or “phone manipulation.” If your employer makes you put this on your phone basically you are just forced to go out and buy your own separate phone.

This app is not as refined as they want you to think. For example, I switched from a small pickup to a full size and all of a sudden my cornering is apparently horrible now ? A new phone has the same effect.

Been using this for a few years. I have gotten a few perfect scores over that period. I can say I am a very safe driver. This thing is useless from the beginning. They don’t know what they are doing. They always look for ways to deduct points from you. Once you got a bad trip, it will take you you more than 10 excellent trips to bring you back. Now they penalize me for driving slow in traffic jam both on local roads and Hway? Bottom, they are not here to teach. They are here to micro manage and they can’t even do that well. Very happy we are now deleting this app.

In my opinion this app is awful, and I can only describe it as the armpit of the App Store. App logs negative events for phone manipulation/ phone call answered due to its software’s incompatibility with newer Apple features (newest iOS update, live voicemail). Then leaves this negative mark on your record even though their customer service acknowledges the issue with what seems like total indifference(I never answered or touched my phone when a call came in but app said I answered it). Borderline libel in my opinion since this data is used to track compliance with organizations policies on driving/phones and can be used against you in terms of disciplinary action- and thus, my opinion that this app is a dumpster fire. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. Cue copy and pasted developer response below.

If I could give this app negative stars I 100 percent would. Phone manipulations when the phone is in a stable spot is one of the huge things amongst others. There’s a lot of flaws in this app that I won’t even bother wasting anymore time on this review. TRASH

It's a good thing my company only uses this for the safety/training videos.... If they took this program seriously it would be a crime.... It's easy enough to disable when you need to or are on your own time..... The fact that nobody had a positive thing to relate or pass on says enough.... Or more to the point, you can disable it easy enough is the most positive thing about it, you gotta wonder if there is a .gov behind it's development

I really wish it would give us a number score and an explanation as well.