NJM SafeDrive

Within 3 days I’ve decided the app is complete crap. Not sure the purpose of an app that is inaccurate.

As a new NJM SafeDrive app user, I am waiting for more than a month to give my impression and review. The app tracks your driving via smart phone GPS and gyroscope, which measures driving speed and turning speed/angle. The math behind can be complicated. But starting from middle of May 2023, my accumulated scores by the end of May was half the rest app users in Leaderboard, who use the app from beginning of May. Simply put, the algorithm doesn’t compare average daily score. It compares the total scores. It seems the more you drive the higher your score is.

Honestly not that bad of scoring system but the sole fact I need my phone for work and every time I needed it it died on me. For a whole week I did not understand why my phone was dying by 12:00 my day starts at 6-7 I use GPS don’t have it plugged in as it’s unnecessary early in the morning and by the time I get to my first location I’m already at 10% sometimes get stranded because Apple takes so long to boot up but the real issue is why this app takes so much when it’s not supposed to.

I just downloaded this app thinking, since I loved NJM when I had them years ago, that they’d have a topnotch app to go along with their topnotch service. What I find is an app with a 1.7 rating WORSE than the park NYC App which is worse than HORRIBLE. Issues ongoing for over THREE YEARS? “Jessica” either isn’t sending reports over to the development team like she says she is, or said team is a bunch of mouth breathers too busy playing World of Warcraft in mom’s basement to bother to get any effect coding done.

It can’t tell if you’re a passenger or driver or if you’re on a bus! Drains my battery like crazy. I’m not sure it’s worth the discount

I want to like this app but I have 2 min of screen time over the last 10 days and it’s sucked 20% of my batter….#1 battery use. Deleting until it can be fixed.

App is unable to differentiate who is driving from who is a passenger. It tracks my sons school bus rides and him as distracted as he’s using his phone on the bus. It can’t tell when I’m getting a ride from a friend or family member.

Been trying to download this app since November It does not work

I downloaded this app to get a small discount on my NJM auto policy. They assured me it would have no bearing on how the insurance company rates me. Well, thank goodness for for that. No matter how slow I go, it gives me a “harsh cornering” score nearly every time I make a turn. I tested it out this morning by almost slowing to a stop - I was going between 5-10 mph while making a turn & it still gave me a 10 out of 100 for harsh cornering. I was a passenger with my daughter a few days ago and it rated the trip as if I were driving. I tried to change it from “driver” to “passenger” and from “my vehicle” to “other” and the app crashed each time I attempt to change it. I finally gave up. If I wasn’t getting a discount on my policy, this app would’ve been deleted the day I downloaded it. It’s awful.

I went to philly with my nephew I was a passenger and I wonder how they jump to my score and know if iam a passenger or driver ?? And Privacy is important in every body’s life !!