This app is no comparison to the old know you drive app. The old app used to have both of us driving the same vehicle at the same time to the same place and the results were different on his phone as a driver than in my phone. How can that be? I’m thinking the old app was built by a man, for a man so any female drivers will always get a lesser score. This app is very accurate in everything it shows when I look at it after a venture out and about. One thing I don’t like is the fast breaking ding. I realize it is to stop people from following too closely but back 60+ years ago, when learning to drive you were taught NOT to ride the brake. So I needed to stop, I braked. Fast stop and no brake riding. This should not be a ding against my insurance. And has been a time or two that when I pulled over, was stopped to check gps or something on my phone it told me I was still driving even though my vehicle was not in motion. So I question that. I don’t like to lie and say that I was not the driver as I was BUT was pulled off the road with flashers or into a parking lot. All in all I do like this app much better but there is always room for improvement.

The only one that I feel is questionable is the hard braking. One time I had the green light to go through an intersection and another driver pulled out to my right to turn into my lane. If I wouldn’t have braked hard I could have had a collision. Another time I had the green light again and a vehicle coming towards me again turned into my lane which I needed to brake for. Both of these were from the other drivers not obeying the rules. We’ve also had a time where I was driving to a game in Florence and didn’t notice that the car had synched with my wife’s phone on the way back home so she got dinged for using her phone and being distracted when she wasn’t even driving. I thought the GPS could tell if the phone was on the drivers or passengers side. This happened at least twice for her when I was the driver. We have now tried to check each time whose phone is being synched to the car. I just thought that once it was synched up at the beginning of a trip it would stay there when I’m in the drivers seat.

As an annoyingly honest person I find the app gives negative consequences in unavoidable circumstances where quick slowdowns are inevitable according to laws of traffic on highways, or for reacting to wildlife. Should I be penalized for hastily reducing my speed when surrounded by traffic traveling 65+ mph while approaching my driveway which is directly off of the 4 lane highway and does not have much of a deceleration lane? I was told in order for it not to count against me to say I was a passenger. Well, that does not seem like an appropriate allocation for the circumstance and therefore giving others who may not be quite as honest a way out. Also, it would skew the data. But perhaps the goal is to have people forget they are running the app and therefore collect all the data, where in this case it doesn’t always appropriately assign the role of driver so again data is skewed. Overall, it’s fun to see my scores and I probably spend way too much time critiquing my driving and having a silent, one-sided, competition with my husband.

This app is definitely better. They have been good about updating incorrect speed limit maps if you message them. It does still glitch and show me going 100mph when I’m going 60. App support says it is my phone, but since the corporate default answer is to blame someone else, it is hard to tell. The best way to save money with this AmFam program is if you drive an unnamed perfect amount. For example, you can get 100% on all 3 visible metrics, but still average much lower overall. So don’t drive too much or too little, definitely don’t stop for improperly timed or marked stoplights, and have your phone secured because if it shifts around at all, you get dinged for a distraction. That being said, I hope all insurance companies switch to this method. It will make people pay extra to drive aggressively which should encourage people to drive better. Then again, $5/gallon gas doesn’t seem to stop people from excessively speeding and flooring it in their pickup trucks and SUVs everywhere. So who knows?