📊 Driving Insights

Driving Insights flags harsh driving events while a drive is being recorded — harsh braking, harsh acceleration, and hard cornering — and rolls them up into a Drive Score (0–100, higher is smoother).

How detection works

Detection runs on the device during recording. The app uses two parallel signals and fuses the result so a single noisy GPS fix can’t fabricate an event:

• GPS-derived — speed and heading deltas from the location stream the app already collects. Works the same on every drive, including CarPlay-only sessions.
• Motion sensors — the device’s accelerometer and gyroscope (iOS Core Motion, Android linear acceleration + rotation vector). More accurate — especially for cornering — and only active while a drive is recording, so there’s no extra battery cost between drives.

When both signals agree within a 1.5-second window, the event is marked as fused and uses the motion sensor’s measurement (which is more precise than GPS-derived deltas).

Event types and thresholds

Severity follows industry-standard thresholds. As a starting point:

• Harsh braking / acceleration — longitudinal change of about 3.5 m/s² (roughly 7.8 mph/s).
• Hard cornering — heading change of 35° over 1.5 seconds at driving speed (≥ 5 m/s, about 11 mph).

Each event is bucketed Mild, Moderate, or Severe by magnitude. The harder or sharper the event, the more it deducts from the drive’s score — mild events cost 2 points, moderate 5, severe 10 (drives start at 100 and clamp at 0).

Where you’ll see it

Drive Details (mobile and Online) shows event markers along the route polyline. A legend control in the bottom-right of the map lets you switch between two views:

• Severity — warning triangles colored by severity (mild amber, moderate orange, severe red). The letter inside identifies the type: B = brake, A = accel, C = corner.
• Type — circles colored by event type. Severity is encoded by ring weight.

Click any marker for a popup with the timestamp, magnitude (in m/s²), speed at that moment, and detection source. Beside the trip stats you’ll see a Drive Score panel with the score and counts by type.

A standalone Driving Insights page lives under Reports in the sidebar. It pulls aggregates for any date range and includes:

• Headline KPIs — average score (color-coded green/amber/red), total events, events per 100 miles, drives affected, total miles.
• Score Trend line chart over the period.
• Events by Type bar chart and a Severity Breakdown doughnut.
• When Events Happen — hour-of-day × day-of-week heatmap.
• Drivers by Score and Vehicles by Score leaderboards (worst-first), useful for coaching in a Fleet group.
• Lowest-Scoring Drives table with click-through to Drive Details.
• Generate PDF export for sharing or archiving.

Using it in your own reports

The Report Builder has two matching blocks under the new Drive Score palette section — Drive Score Summary and Drive Score Detail — so you can fold these aggregates into a custom or saved report layout alongside drives, fuel, and the rest. See Available Report Blocks for the full palette.

Permissions

Detection only runs while a drive is being recorded, so the same OS-level permissions that AutoDrive already needs to track drives (location, motion & fitness on iOS, activity recognition on Android) carry it. If your drives aren’t recording in the first place, see the Drive Detection Checklist.

What about speeding?

Speeding is reserved for a later release. AutoDrive needs a reliable per-road speed-limit data source before we can flag it, and we’d rather show nothing than show wrong numbers. When it ships, it will appear here automatically — no app update required to start seeing it on your existing drives.

Available on AutoDrive Personal and higher.